Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Stepper control w/o a computer?????

And the Sherlines have a cable(pigtal) so you can use then as the
stepper driver in a cnc operation. I didn't realize this until
yesterday.

I should have included the division master but didn't know if what
kind of programming you had..

Garry

> At 21:54 02/01/2003 +0000, you wrote:
> >Yes there are at least 2 available commercially.
> >
> >The "Frog"
> >Also the Sherline controller can be used on rotary tables or plain
> >stepper motors. The guy that designed it has some good information on
> >his page.
> >
> >Garry
> >
> >To: CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com
> >From: "fozzyber <jerry@...>"
> ><jerry@...>
> >Date sent: Thu, 02 Jan 2003 16:36:27 -0000
> >Subject: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Stepper control w/o a
> >computer?????
> >Send reply to: CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com
> >
> > > I'm new to this CNC stuff but I am starting down this road one
> > > step at a time. I am getting a better understanding of CNC each
> > > day. My future plans is to convert my Drill/Mill to CNC. I would
> > > like to know is there a device that will control a stepper motor
> > > with out a computer. ie a black box that will tell the motor to
> > > spin this way spin that way. I guess this box would have to send
> > > step and direction signals? useing switches. The reason I ask this
> > > is if I did this first I could have a power feed first then worry
> > > about adding computer control later. plus I could work out all of
> > > the mech bugs with out haveing to deal with computer bugs. Ideas
> > > comments..
> > >
>
> ...And a third example is DivisionMaster
> (http://www.divisionmaster.com) - however, strictly speaking, none of
> these three is stepper control w/o a computer, because all three have
> an embedded microcomputer that does the "smarts" - a PIC in the case
> of DivisionMaster; don't know offhand what the other two use.
>
>
> Regards,
> Tony
>
>
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