On 08/09/2017 11:33 AM, Dan Bloomquist wrote:

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You made me look. :) My wheels have no markings so taped a piece of
paper and made pencil mark. I mounted a .0001" dial indicator. I can't
see any backlash, just my wheel is sloppy. The wheel is 6 1/2" in
diameter and to get a .001" move, the outer rim moves ~.075". This is an
integrating solution to an accurate setup.

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I'll try to remember to take pictures of my dial setup and post them. Each dial is housed in the box where the motor to screw coupler is. There is a window on the box for viewing the dial. One problem I have is that the stepper drivers are setup for quarter stepping so I have 0.00025" jumps. I can see this on the dials well enough, but the DRO display increments between these steps and I feel compelled to work out the DRO value at the time the last step trips, which wastes a bit of time. I replaced the x axis driver with an MA860H which has micro-stepping. The MA860H doesn't sing like the old drives and it can use twice the voltage. I'd like to change out the other axes when I can get around to it.


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Kirk Wallace
http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/
http://www.wallacecompany.com/E45/

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