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The Sequel - Oh Blimey I bought a CNC Lathe (Beaver TC 20)
awemawson:
Here's a picture of the mystery LED
(Cliff I've sent you a PM)
Brent Crude:
That LED is the one that flashes green when the probe is on and red when it is triggered.
awemawson:
--- Quote from: Brent Crude on March 30, 2019, 06:54:39 AM ---That LED is the one that flashes green when the probe is on and red when it is triggered.
--- End quote ---
Or in my case coyly stays off keeping it's own council :lol:
awemawson:
Spent a bit of time this afternoon writing a little program in the Siemens rather arcane '@ functions' to try the probe under program control. As usual all rather unsettling for first time running as you're expecting the probe to be crushed into oblivion any minute :bugeye:
All went well I'm pleased to say - phew
(The Z co-ordinate is loaded into register R1)
tom osselton:
Nice to see it work, is it suppose to just probe the one time? On our mill it contacts twice once initially to find the edge within x distance then measures position.
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