Originally Posted by
G-Thomp
Hi Wizzard, the power drawbar stepper thing was just a stop gap and seems to work ok, though I cant have the belevilles too tight, so its limited.Im waiting on delivery of pneumatic cylinders as I state in my first post, I have everything else and a rough idea how.
I totaly agree, having been in engineering for 38 yrs subsystems are easier to diagnose and can be altered independantly etc, I have done lots of design and developement of machines for the food /packaging industry, but my background is not electronic controll systems ,( I know virtualy nothing besides a little electronics knowlege) the company used to get an automation guy in for that, I'm more mechanical and in the past replaced electronic timers for pneumatics with things like cams to get the job done so to speak.
I would be very interested in turning this uno or a pi I also have to the sole task of an ATC, but am totaly clueless as to how to accomplish that, I imagine I would have to write C or code for the arduino specific to what I'm doing, probably a simple task to someone who knows what they are doing, but def beyond myself, cost isnt a big problem, I 'm just trying to get a ballance between industrialisation and a hobby machine, its work envelope is not very large though it is structuraly very sound being made mostly from steel.
Thanks again
Robert