[mattinker]

Hi

I'm back from a ten day spell in hospital, nothing serious, I'm now minus my appendix, I had peritonitis to go with it, but all seems well now!

Here are a few links that apply to the ELS. Although I'm making my lathe CNCable, the principal source of control will be the ELS
John Dammeyer has designed the Electronic Lead-Screw
Autoartisans ELS

John has also started a Forum here on the zone:

CNCZone ELS Forum

This is the original ELS forum
Yahoo ELS group

The .pdf below is the circuit that I used for my encoder circuits. It's from John's site, I suspect that if it doesn't work it's my fault! The ELS doesn't need the quadrature encoder, just one pulse per revolution.

I've started work on the cross slide limit switche, but I haven't done enough to start writing it up yet. I hope to be a bit more active in a couple of days! I'm itching to get back to it.

Regards, Matthew