I used an Omron rotary encoder to measure spindle location and speed on my lathe. The positioning is useful and enabled me to do an electronic leadscrew (a good project down the line).? It's the thing attached with the orange belt below.? They spin very freely,
so you don't need much belt tension and this is one of the poly belts that you cut to length and melt together.
My encoder is 360 pulses per revolution and cost me under $20 on eBay in 2020.? It looks like they might be $30ish now.
Alex
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Thanks Julian . I need something that can could revolutions on the spindle on my lathe . I looked for that project in the files this weekend but all I found was like 3 pics . Is it still there & I'm just messed up ?
thanks
animal
On 5/6/25 9:54 AM, Julian wrote:
Hi Mike,
Not sure what type of IR sensor your looking for, but I used one of these on my auto oiler system a few years back ...
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It was an H92B4 photo interrupter.? It worked very well both for counting oil drips and with a small metal strip passing between the legs to measure rpm.