On Tuesday 13 February 2018 20:04:27 jeremy youngs wrote: > I had to service this motor today, as a previous technician had > improperly installed the brushes and it would are off at speed. In > doing so I removed the tach cover and found plenty of room for an > omron encoder. So I will not likely try these for spindle encoder. But > will be putting them in as home switches soon. > > Gene, you are absolutely right about the optos, the strongest and best > these have performed today after I replaced the bob to a straight > through board. However, I discovered my y axis ballscrews is bent.
Ouch. Time to do it right. But how the heck did it get bent? I'd find out why, and fix it. > It's been in there 4 years now and was kinda jury rigged anyhow. So I > guess it's time to jump that hurdle, may as well put one in x as well. > Now where's that box with pulleys and belt in it from China that has > been setting in Chicago for 2.5 weeks....... It will probably arrive, in what the folks in Windy would call due time. :) > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >-------- Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's > most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
