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Re: Constant Surface Speed Application for 300 mm lathe #CSS


 

In my experience with the blu tooth TouchDRO when used on my mill, they give me an accurate coordinate display but manual?milling.(hand cranking).only.
Provided you have calibrated first yury?s display. Not difficult as there is a settings in Yury?s "app" to do this.??
I just use the normal Al Basset?s box and an Android Samsung tablet, and I must say this kit works OK.

But under my mill rapid power feed the coordinates can lose accuracy, I now this as making comparisons with my 4 axis CNC controller?
displays and these are accurate as they are not relying?on Igaging?scales, but pulses off the stepper motor drivers.

Not being an electronic wizard, I think the Blue tooth box possibly needs time to play catch up to the rapid movements
and also I don?t think it?s an Igaging scale issue.
I am suspecting this could be the case with attaching this type of display to a CSS ,if the Bluetooth was somehow connected
to display lathe spindle RPM. but I do not know. I don?t see me in the future going down this route.

The standard optical RPM display built into the lathe control box works OK.and I also?
have a seperate digital RPM display connected to the Arduino on the ELS system which reads the encoder movements.
Now this is really accurate and gives on time (no delay) RPM counts.

John




On Sat, 14 Sep 2019 at 17:37, Ralph Hulslander <rhulslander@...> wrote:
Barry re: DRO positioning. If you contact Yuri at ?he can probable show you how?
to understand the DRO readings to make them usable. There is also a forum with lots of DRO discussions.

Ralph

On Fri, Sep 13, 2019 at 10:19 PM CLevinski <clevinski@...> wrote:
Hi, Barry,
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OK, I will post our conversation.? I think we can get valuable input from others.
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Re an encoder on the cross-slide, a small microcomputer, such as an Arduino, can be used to count the pulses from an incremental encoder and provide position information without a lot of gearing.? It would also be needed to provide speed output information to the speed control system.
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But you are right, your DRO is already calculating positioning information.? That would be quite elegant if we could tap into that.? You would still need some way to process and react to the information, though.
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Regards,

Charlie
New Jersey, USA


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Clausing 8520, Craftsman 12x36 Lathe, 4x12 mini lathe, 14" Delta drill press, 40 watt laser, Consew brushless DC motors and a non working 3D printer


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John

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