Re: Lathe DRO
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Hi Gene, I found that site a while back, very useful.? The calipers they show are the very cheap ones which, I believe, have a different output format and are usually 1.5v.? The caliper I'm
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Julian
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Re: Lathe DRO
#DRO
Hey Julian, Are you planning to keep using the battery in the caliper? Wouldn't it be possible to hook up power from Arduino to supply the caliper with power, getting rid of the battery? A fresh 3 V
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Gene Pavlovsky
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Re: Lathe DRO
#DRO
Happy to help! That's not too bad a plug - isn't fun working with such small wires? Thinking this through - since you have said there is a 3.3v and 3v supply, looking at the Atmel datasheet for Voh
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BuffaloJohn
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Re: Lathe DRO
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Buffalo John, thanks for your reassurance.? I changed the sketch to make the "req" pin normally high and change to low,? hooked up the wiring and amazingly it worked, subject to some adjustments to
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Julian
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Re: Lathe DRO
#DRO
Hi Julian, nice to hear from you.Mini lathes are always difficult to add on mods due to space constraints.I cheated and used I gaging scales for reading Z saddle movement? and X for cross slide
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John Lindo
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Re: Lathe DRO
#DRO
Should be fine Julian
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Mark Naylor
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Re: Lathe DRO
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The 2N2222 is a general purpose NPN transistor and the usage here would certainly be voltage translation. However - is there a pullup resistor on the REQ pin? This can be checked with a volt meter
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BuffaloJohn
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Re: Lathe DRO
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Thanks for the prompt reply, Mike.? But it's not really a TouchDRO issue. All I want to do for the time being is get numbers to the Arduino serial monitor to check the two will talk. After that Mark
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Julian
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Re: Lathe DRO
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Julian , ,I can't answer your question , but maybe you might try asking over on the Touch DRO forum over t Yuri's toys . ??? ??? good luck ??? ??? animal
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mike allen
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Lathe DRO
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Hi all, Been a bit quiet on here for a while, hope everyone is well. I thought I¡¯d wake things up a bit by asking some dumb questions about a project I¡¯m currently working on where my knowledge of
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Julian
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Re: Can this DRO be used?
Well hopefully you luck out , if not take it apart & clean it again . ??? ??? animal
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mike allen
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Re: Can this DRO be used?
Mike That is something new to me. I just opened the scale and wiped it all clean. Now I have to wait and see how reliable it is.? Thanks for the idea-Prasad
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Prasad
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Re: Can this DRO be used?
If you can find one the old ShumaTech DRO-550 works well with the iGaging scales and gives you nice DRO features (like switching between diameter and radius on a lathe, basic math functions on lathe
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alexphredorg
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Re: Can this DRO be used?
The aluminium iGaging scales work great. For the price I would just go for it. Worry about the premium another day. Ralph
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Ralph Hulslander
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Re: Can this DRO be used?
I apologize if I'm getting off topic. Reading https://www.touchdro.com/resources/scales/capacitive/igaging-absolute-dro.html begs more questions. From what I see Igaging has "standard" capacitive
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grumpy@...
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Re: Can this DRO be used?
I realize this started out as a DRO question, but in case you might want to go to CNC in the future... I started out with linear scales connected to a Mesa interface card into a computer running
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Jerry Trantow <jerry.trantow@...>
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Re: Can this DRO be used?
Theres a guy that did that online somewhere , let me do some digging & see if I can find it . https://pcm52.com/tag/arduino/ ??? ??? here's one , but I know theres another one I was looking at .
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mike allen
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Re: Can this DRO be used?
Here is an eBay solution--(Not my Auction) 2-3-4-5 axis DRO setup 2/3/4/5Axis Digital Readout DRO Display 5?m TTL Linear Glass Scale Mill Lathe | eBay
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Jon Rus
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Re: Can this DRO be used?
Here is an eBay solution--(Not my Auction) 2-3-4-5 axis DRO setup 2/3/4/5Axis Digital Readout DRO Display 5?m TTL Linear Glass Scale Mill Lathe | eBay
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Jon Rus
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Re: Can this DRO be used?
Like the idea of the angular readout very much.? I'll have to sign up to see the details. I did look at doing something similar for the X axis ... Removing the magnetic strip from the scale and
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Julian
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