Originally Posted by
bolttjza
The motors have both tacho's on (feed back to the drive?) and some sort of Heidenhain encoder on them (feed back to interact?).[*]can I use the exsisting encoders with this conversion?
Thanks
It all depends on the model number.
Heidenhain, as well as the 5v TTL type, use a large variety of encoders that are either 11µa or 2v P/P sine wave, these are largely incompatible with the 5v TTL systems.
Al.
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