Quote Originally Posted by greybeard View Post
Thank you Irving2008. The para 2h is a key piece of information that I've never come across.
Not only credit to Mr Gecko, but to you too, for knowing your source material.
I think it's the "re-distillation" of knowledge into a consumable form that so appeals to me in such a forum as this.

John
You're welcome.

I was playing around with the idea of automating the process... a 'pulley' on the stepper with some form of encoder to determine stall point, a brake shoe on the pulley that can be tightened by a small stepper and an analogue to digital converter to read current and voltage... and a simple program to pull all the info together.