Well, the main reason is that I have a box full of stepper motors and no rotary encoders. I'm purely a hobby guy so I have tons more time than money for projects.
The second reason is to make one do double duty, sense how far it moved and then move back to where I started. Not sure if that's a possibility, but that's what I'm trying to figure out. Raymond Julian Kettle River, MN The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second. -John Steinbeck, novelist, Nobel laureate (1902-1968) On 08/26/2014 06:31 AM, andy pugh wrote: > On 26 August 2014 02:59, rayj <[email protected]> wrote: >> I'm wondering if anyone on this list has used a stepper motor as an >> encoder to monitor a shaft position and used it as input to LCNC? > > Why bother when you end up with something more expensive and more > troublesome than: > http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/261430664298 > > If you want an index too then the price doubles: > http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/310989031586 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Slashdot TV. Video for Nerds. Stuff that matters. http://tv.slashdot.org/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
