Both of those require stepper motors and spindle sensing, that's the electronic half-nut control, you would only have to add a thing or two more and you would have a complete CNC setup.
Martin > From: bodge...@gmail.com > Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 02:48:02 +0100 > To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Should I or Shouldn't I? > > > The ELS controllers I found: > > http://www.autoartisans.com/ELS/ > > http://www.cnccookbook.com/MTLatheElecLeadMockDocs.htm > > > > don't need a threading indicator, as far as I can tell. > > One claims to have electronic half-nut control. Whatever that does. I > can't see any way for them to know where you have wound the carriage > back to, so I do think a threading indicator is still needed. > > The second one appears to give very much the same style of working as > my LinuxCNC setup. But probably at rather more cost, and rather less > extra capability. > > -- > atp > If you can't fix it, you don't own it. > http://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: > > Build for Windows Store. > > http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
