Setting up and testing Aikron scales, can I trust the diagrams on the Aikron site ?

[maxime.levesque]

This document on TouchDRO:

https://www.touchdro.com/resources/scales/glass/glass-scale-pinout.html

recommends "discovering" the pins by reverse engineering.

Has anyone done this with Aikron scales, and found that their diagram can be relied upon :

https://www.aikrondro.com/product/aikron-akm-series-linear-encoders/

?

I would find it a bit surprizing that Aikron had gone to the trouble of setting up a site with pin diagrams that don't correspond to their scales.

I'm tempted to not do the reverse engineering "homework", and trust the diagram, but OTOH it would suck to fry a scale.


Also, it's not clear from the documentation if I can do a "bench test": plug the scales and move them and see if numbers are moving, without first calibrating the scales.

I would like to do this before mounting the scales on my mill, and calibration is worthless before the scales are mounted.

 

[ycroosh]

This document on TouchDRO:

https://www.touchdro.com/resources/scales/glass/glass-scale-pinout.html

recommends "discovering" the pins by reverse engineering.

Has anyone done this with Aikron scales, and found that their diagram can be relied upon :

https://www.aikrondro.com/product/aikron-akm-series-linear-encoders/

?

I would find it a bit surprizing that Aikron had gone to the trouble of setting up a site with pin diagrams that don't correspond to their scales.

I'm tempted to not do the reverse engineering "homework", and trust the diagram, but OTOH it would suck to fry a scale.


Also, it's not clear from the documentation if I can do a "bench test": plug the scales and move them and see if numbers are moving, without first calibrating the scales.

I would like to do this before mounting the scales on my mill, and calibration is worthless before the scales are mounted.

That page "recommends" discovering pins if you can't get the pinout from the manufacturers or when you get scales that "fell of the truck". Aikron and Ditron are two of the "reputable" brands, and both use the same pinout. More info is here: https://www.touchdro.com/resources/getting-started/recommended-dro-scales.html

 

[maxime.levesque]

Thanks, it was based on the recommendation on your site that I got the Aikron,

So I plugged the scales, saw numbers moving, so I can now mount the scales on the machine.

Glad I could skip the discovery homework ! ;-)

That page "recommends" discovering pins if you can't get the pinout from the manufacturers or when you get scales that "fell of the truck". Aikron and Ditron are two of the "reputable" brands, and both use the same pinout. More info is here: https://www.touchdro.com/resources/getting-started/recommended-dro-scales.html