well - the mouse sensor seems to work up to 400rpm.. About the fastest I can do without breaking something...
https://electronicsam.com/images/emco/Screenshot%20from%202022-09-18%2021-03-39.png https://photos.app.goo.gl/GRgXpfJwB7hCZBMT7 sensor board still needs to be fastened to the 3d printed part.. (might just heatmelt the line up pins.. sam On Sun, Sep 18, 2022 at 8:58 PM Sam Sokolik <samco...@gmail.com> wrote: > yep - andy is a genius... > (and halscope is really cool..) > > I triggered on the rising edge of the index enable and put it one rotation > back.. You can see the position is counting up by .01 each time by the > steps. Then the gap happens and the next step is .02 so the rotation > position ends at 1... > > > https://electronicsam.com/images/emco/Screenshot%20from%202022-09-18%2020-55-28.png > > On Sun, Sep 18, 2022 at 6:48 PM Sam Sokolik <samco...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> ok.. It might be working? I made a hal component that would set index >> enable to true after so many encoder counts. I set it to 998 (<10 >> rotations) to set the index enable to true.. and the encoder position was >> 9.98... >> >> so it isn't losing every rotation. so I 'think' it is working right... >> >> >> https://electronicsam.com/images/emco/Screenshot%20from%202022-09-18%2018-41-42.png >> >> sam >> >> On Sun, Sep 18, 2022 at 5:54 PM Ed <ate...@mwt.net> wrote: >> >>> On 9/18/22 5:24 PM, Martin Dobbins wrote: >>> > Er 100 minus 2 (the holes you cut metal between is 98? >>> >>> He cut out the metal between two holes to make 99 holes, one being twice >>> as wide as the rest. Did I follow that right? >>> >>> > ________________________________ >>> > From: Ed <ate...@mwt.net> >>> > Sent: Sunday, September 18, 2022 4:53 PM >>> > To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net <emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net> >>> > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] missing tooth index questions.. >>> > >>> > On 9/18/22 3:50 PM, Sam Sokolik wrote: >>> >> I have a optical encoder from a mouse running on an emco encoder >>> wheel (100 >>> >> holes). I cut out the metal between 2 holes. I think that would be >>> >> considered one missing tooth... I have the encoder scale set to 100 >>> and >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Emc-users mailing list >>> Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users >>> >> _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
