Look for emco cnc lathe compact 5 turret on YouTube and you'll see several videos of it operating, stock and modified. Stock, they are pretty at changing tools.This guy used EdingCNC and wrote a subroutine to operate the upgraded stepper motor he put on the turret. Quite speedy changes. The original steppers on the Compact 5 were just 75 steps rather than the typical 180.
"The Emco turret has a ratchet wheel and a pawl to keep the turretplate in position.. i wrote the subroutine for the toolchange so that it rotates 4 degrees extra to release the pawl, and then 10 degrees back to put the ratchet wheel firmly to the pawl.. with this ratchet wheel.. the turret can only turn in one direction.. if you look closely.. you can see the turret turning back a bit after a toolchange." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfIzuWAEZiw Here's a demo of a stock standalone Compact 5 CNC lathe turret. Note it rotates quite a bit farther past the tool position before backing up to lock, and the rotation speed is slower. Crazy thing was programmed to be able to advance 6 positions, which runs it around 360 degrees back to the same tool. Why not have it ignore commands for a 6 position change? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kNYLt6ne_w 'Tis a shame the Welturn and Welmill upgrades for the Emco standalone lathe and mill are long out of production and nobody has bothered to clone or make lower complexity functional equivalents with 21st century components. On Friday, January 8, 2021, 5:07:36 AM MST, andy pugh <bodge...@gmail.com> wrote: On Fri, 8 Jan 2021 at 07:26, Andreas Linnarsson <andreas.linnars...@gmail.com> wrote: > Is it possible to have the carousel component ignore the first pocket > sensor trigger in order to proceed to the next slot or, can i be run in > some kind of timer mode so this doesn't happen? Any inputs would be greatly > appreciated! Can you tell us your loadrt string for carousel? So that I can work out how the component is behaving in your case? _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
