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Its hard for me to judge anymore, thats all I deal with, looks normal to me ha ha
Its hard for me to judge anymore, thats all I deal with, looks normal to me ha ha
When I got my 1127 a few years ago, they were using SINO DRO’s. I haven’t had any problems with it, but I wish the manual/interface was easier to understand.They sell PM branded DROs & Easson DROs. Easson was $200-300 more than the PM branded ones. I'm assuming the PM ones are re-branded Chinese DRO. I was actually on the phone with Matt today & asked him the difference. Mostly it's the display, Easson has a PC type display with rendered graphics, the PM one is just a multi-segment LED like on your microwave that only displays numbers.
If you want a different X or Y, you just change the cable inputs right?I found the enclosed manual lacking as well but did find the PM had a much more detailed manual on their site:
http://www.precisionmatthews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/ES12B-Manual-Reduced.pdf
Still attempting to figure this unit out myself. So I can’t be much more help. But hopefully the larger and more detailed manual will make more sense...
One of the first things that confused me is that it was set up for X & Y axis instead of X & Z. That is the standard “lathe” setting on this unit. I suppose one could reset the unit into “Mill” mode to get the Z for longitude. Thinking about doing that myself just to keep the axis nominclature standard so that when I purchase my mill next year I don’t confuse myself
I'm guessing with a lathe you make the carriage X and the cross slide Y?
Got it...I'm guessing with a lathe you make the carriage X and the cross slide Y?
The convention for machine tools is to set the axis moving parallel to the spindle rotational axis as Z, so carriage is Z, cross slide is X
If you want a different X or Y, you just change the cable inputs right?
I've only used a mill dro and on mine Z is used for the column and the quill has its own dro built in. I'm guessing with a lathe you make the carriage X and the cross slide Y?
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