Re: Spindle

[Ray <rehenry-at-up.net>]

Matt

Egg on my face!  This post is grist for the FAQ for sure.

Thanks

Ray

On Monday 21 January 2002 08:18 pm, you wrote:
> Ray wrote:
> > On Monday 21 January 2002 11:37 am, Kurtis wrote:
> >> Is it true that the analog spindle currently only works with the
> >> minimill task/IO and not the bridgeport task/IO?
> >
> > The reverse is true.  There is no spindle control with minimill at all. 
> > The control that works with bport is a forward,  reverse, up, down, stop.
> >  I haven't tried real analog spindle control so can't help much there.
> >
> > Ray
>
> Actually, it is true, I think... Fred Proctor at NIST once (or twice)
> told me that if you use an STG card with minimill i/o, the 4th axis d/a
> outputs a voltage to control a spindle drive. I never saw it work
> myself, but he did say he had it running. There's no feedback involved
> and I don't know how the scale is set (probably OUTPUT_SCALE).
>
> Good Luck,
> Matt