Re: question re using a plotter as a power feed
Posted by
Jeff Demand
on 2000-09-06 14:17:32 UTC
At 09:01 PM 09/05/2000 -0400, you wrote:
A few years ago I took apart a Houston Instruments DMP-40 plotter and
mounted the motors on a small X-Y table with a solenoid on the Z axis. It
had a 2400 baud serial interface requiring a null modem type cable and
worked well ploting drawings done with Generic Cadd except that with 5 TPI
screws instead of paper rollers it wouldn't make anything larger than 1.5 X
2 inches.
Jeff
> The plotter is a Houston model DP 11 The cable plug is round withabout 19 pins and 15 of them are wired up and doing
>something....Bill
A few years ago I took apart a Houston Instruments DMP-40 plotter and
mounted the motors on a small X-Y table with a solenoid on the Z axis. It
had a 2400 baud serial interface requiring a null modem type cable and
worked well ploting drawings done with Generic Cadd except that with 5 TPI
screws instead of paper rollers it wouldn't make anything larger than 1.5 X
2 inches.
Jeff