On 12 February 2013 16:40, dave <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 2013-02-12 at 10:16 -0600, Stuart Stevenson wrote:
>> When an A or B hard limit is tripped and the drive is shut >> off the head is tilted so far the weight causes the head to keep moving and >> the pinion gear will drop off the end of the rack with an accompanying loud >> clunk when the head drops to the frame. > Stuart I must say you have an interesting take on 'fun'. ;-) > No stop on the rack to prevent it spooling off? Dropping off the rack might be seen as a good feature, it means that in the case of a servo runaway all that happens is that the pinion runs off the rack and spins free, rather than sitting there on the end stop until the expensive smoke leaks out. -- atp If you can't fix it, you don't own it. http://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Free Next-Gen Firewall Hardware Offer Buy your Sophos next-gen firewall before the end March 2013 and get the hardware for free! Learn more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sophos-d2d-feb _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
