I will be interested to hear how you get on with the Clough42 system.
I totally agree that it the expenditure on mechanics, drives, steppers
and Power supplies is the major part of a system.
Again interchangeability is easy, I can swap from my lathes ELS to CNC
in a few minutes, and with initial design thought could swap over to a
different ELS.
Good Luck
Richard
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On 11/02/2020 18:13, alexphredorg wrote:
I used Clough42 because it is very well documented both in hardware
installation and software design and covered my needs. It is a simpler
system than most (for instance it has limited UI options based on the
8 digit display and some fixed LED) with less functionality as a
result.? I will likely improve that over time, maybe adding a better
display and more functionality.? The good documentation (both written
and through YouTube videos) made it pretty straight forward to figure
out how to adapt it to my lathe.
It's also pretty easy to swap out the actual control logic between
these ELS systems.? The microcontroller and code are the cheap part of
the system, the stepper or servo drive and custom brackets and pulleys
is a bigger investment in money and time.
alex
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I have put the Sketch and a Spreadsheet in the "Files" area. The
Spreadsheet is used to generate the system parameters for "Your" lathe.
This is based on Metric values only for the moment. However the only
time you might be aware of that is that the "Feed" pitches are in
Metric. The unit will happily install and run on an imperial machine.
Metric and Imperial thread pitches LH and RH are both available, Manual
and Automatic, together with the ability to cut any taper Internal or
External.
I will be doing a write up on the system to explain what it can do in
the near future.
I would be interested to know why you picked on the Clough42 system for
your lathe.
Good Luck
Richard
On 10/02/2020 16:02, alexphredorg wrote:
Is there a GitHub or other page for the RELS project being discussed
on this list? ?I think I¡¯ve read all of the posts but never found a
summary page or link to the source code.
I¡¯m currently adding an electronic leadscrew to my Emco Compact 10
using the Clough42 system but I¡¯m curious to see other similar
alternatives.
thanks,
alex
