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PhenixRising
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Posted: 03:34pm 23 Oct 2024
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Bridgeport Interact-4 CNC milling machine won't find it's home reference on the Z axis.

Experts arrive and decide that the encoder inside the motor was bad and that they'd have to pull it out.
No scope or anything to prove the theory and pulling the motor is quite a major operation.

I wasn't having it and so I ran over with a PicoMite, programmed to read quadrature and the Index pulse (on interrupt).

Motor is absolutely fine. Informed the experts that this little chip could out-perform the entire Heidenhain CNC controller, including the VDU  



Edited 2024-10-24 01:36 by PhenixRising
 
Mixtel90

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Posted: 04:54pm 23 Oct 2024
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And to top it all off, it's a YD-RP2040 (or other similar Chinese el cheapo relation) rather than a Pico! :)  Such artistic wiring too.
Mick

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Marcel27

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Posted: 05:56pm 23 Oct 2024
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I love it!  
If you use AI, you lose your mind.
 
circuit
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Posted: 07:21pm 23 Oct 2024
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I am in awe!
 
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