Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO]Threading

Bill,

An encoder can be read by as simple a circuit as connecting to "status"
pins of a parallel port. However if you need any speed, try using a DRO
circuit, like Dan's:

http://www.seanet.com/~dmauch/

or Tom's DRO page:

http://www.mcs.net/~kulaga/dro.html

Hope this helps. Let us know how it comes out!

Alan

Bill Darby wrote:

>
> Hi list
>
> I AM a total novice in the electronics department. My question is,, is there any simple way of feeding the output signals from
> an encoder on the spindle to the computer so that the steps can be counted in a basic program. (IE in order to slave the X axis to a
> ratio of the speed of the spindle for threading.)
>
> Bill D