I still remember the feeling of the first successful turret index on my pc turn 55 😀
Phil T. The Feral Engineer Check out my LinuxCNC tutorials, machine builds and other antics at www.youtube.com/c/theferalengineer Help support my channel efforts and coffee addiction: www.patreon.com/theferalengineer Order one of the coolest label makers on the market at http://labelworks.epson.com, use coupon code "theferalengineer" and receive 20% off of your order 🙂 On Mon, Nov 28, 2022, 9:01 PM Sam Sokolik <samco...@gmail.com> wrote: > It doesn't say anywhere in the linuxcnc manual for classic ladder - but is > there a limit for the compare block to just 2 compares? > ie.. > > I had this in the compare > %IW0<%W0,&%IW0>0,&IW0<7 > For the life of me the logic just wasn't working. > Finally I put it in 2 separate compares.. > %IW0<%W0 in one.. followed by %IW0>0,&IW0<7 > > This worked as expected.. > > BTW - the old emco turret with no feedback should work pretty darn well > with a little ladder logic.. Only 1 output. (logic 0 runs the turret into > the pawl through a current limiting resistor.. logic 1 runs the turret > clockwise to the next tool.) > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGGPob1iKj8 > > The original Emco compact 5 CNC, when you would call a tool - say you are > at tool 1 and going to tool 3 - would stop at tool 2 and index. (it stops > at every tool location between the one it was at and the one you called) > > I think this was probably convenience as you need 2 different time delays - > the initial one to go to the next one.. (slightly longer than every pocket > after the first..) I am currently using 2.2 seconds for the first tool - > 1.8 seconds for every tool after. > > kinda neat. > > _______________________________________________ > 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
