As a follow-up to my question about my tool-changer on my lathe I have made some progress on the First tool turret. I used Classic Ladder to handle all the I/O. It is all hydraulically controlled and tool position is defined by an array of 6 switches following cams (4 for position and 2 for triggering Hi/Low Speed) I am using a Mesa 5i20 card connected to OPTO 22 input and output relays....
I took some video and you can see it in action here. http://www.clintandheidi.com/multimedia/pictures/hitachiseiki/Toolchanger_1. flv.php http://www.clintandheidi.com/multimedia/pictures/hitachiseiki/Toolchanger_2. flv.php Thanks to everyone who offered their advice. Clint __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 6280 (20110709) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2 _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
