On 07/27/2013 10:37 AM, Don Stanley wrote: > Hi Kirk; > Very interested in what you were doing with your tool changer. > I could not see how it was interacting with the spindle. > Did I miss something in the video, or is that yet to be determined? > I am interested in that part also. > Thanks > Don ... snip
There is an arm with a gripper that moves the tool from the spindle to the carousel, then grabs a new tool and moves it to the spindle. This was on the mill when I bought it and is made by Summit/Dana. http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/Shizuoka/atc_manual/bandit_changer-0001.png There is a control board in the changer that handles each function (tool in, tool out, etcetera) and is activated by shorting one of the command wires to common. This makes it easy to interface to LinuxCNC. http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/Shizuoka/atc_manual/bandit_changer-0027.png I didn't like the Geneva drive that rotates the carousel so I replaced it with a DC gear-motor, http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/Shizuoka/100_1136-1a.jpg and encoder, http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/Shizuoka/100_1133-1a.JPG and added a limit and PID component to control the motion. http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/Shizuoka/Carousel_Overview-1a.png After some testing, I decided I wanted to optionally use my MPG to manually control the carousel, but I ran into some problems and that's were the project has been for over a year now. Karl kept his changer alone and wrote a comp to get his to work with LinuxCNC as-is. http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/Shizuoka/qd_atc_hal_ov-1a.svg http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/Shizuoka/qdtoolchange.comp -- Kirk Wallace http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/ http://www.wallacecompany.com/E45/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ See everything from the browser to the database with AppDynamics Get end-to-end visibility with application monitoring from AppDynamics Isolate bottlenecks and diagnose root cause in seconds. Start your free trial of AppDynamics Pro today! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48808831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
