The illusive Boxford 260vmc

[irving2008]

Rick, despite having a handheld tacho, you've made me feel I am missing something if I don't have one on the minilathe now! grrrrr lol

All those circuits using a PIC are fine but you note how there's never any source code to download or firmware to burn... so watch this space...

[Ricardoco]

Rick, despite having a handheld tacho, you've made me feel I am missing something if I don't have one on the minilathe now! grrrrr lol...

Well ive stated my reasons for wanting one and to be fair MACH does have the facility, However as i said mach says spindle go at 3000rpm, but there is no way of you knowing if the motor has obeyed this command, this could be a too higher feed rate lowering the spindle rpm, i just thought it would be nice for me to be able to see if the spindle was doing as it was told and maybe in the future incorperating a feature that lowered the feed rate to keep the rpm of the spindle at its desired speed, that is why i wanted feed rate control as well....

All those circuits using a PIC are fine but you note how there's never any source code to download or firmware to burn... so watch this space...

I WILL BE WATCHING, BE ASSURED OF THAT lol