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page 719 also shows 9 pin connector options as Sine Wave Signal Input.

Page 132 of this manual talks about the encoder types going into the 407 (now confirmed its 407) controller. It talks about signal period, so assume its going to be as you suspect, sine / cosine. https://adegis.com/media/asset/ed4ab66482fbedfb2bba555d13aceb381fb784ba0f64cdbfc4a60991433f89cf.pdf Page...

Hmm. Five-axis machine, and there in your picture are five connectors that look like Heidenhain M23 12-pin feedback plugs. Each plug bringing in nine wires, including four twisted pairs consistent with Heidenhain position feedback (BLU+RED, YEL+GRN, GRY+PNK, WHT+BRN). Because it is Heidenhain, ther...

Suppose thinking through, its not step / direction, so it cant pulse a distance, so yes, there must be some feedback somewhere.

And I took this pic, wanted to see if there was anything that looked like encoder wires coming in. Pity I didnt take more of the plugs.

Can Oak run without this encoder feedback? No. Neither can Heidenhain, unless all it does is move back and forth between limit switches. What exactly is a "Gate machine"? If the Heidenhain control had a DRO position display, and the ability to move to programmed positions, then there is p...

Just taken a look at the machine again. Interesting observations. The DC motors all look identical, even for the 4th and 5th Axis but run smaller drives (assumably due to lower load). There is however no other feedback than Tacho. We couldnt find any linear / glass scales or any other form of feedba...

You can probably run that system with Oak (+OpticDirect) in analog velocity mode. The drives need the tachogenerator feedback from the motors, to do their speed control. The Oak needs quadrature position feedback to know where the axis is. No, there is no way to usefully generate a quadrature encod...

Hello, I've seen some DC motors with both tachogenerator feedback and encoder feedback. I see a lot of references to "measuring system" inputs on the controller and they sure look a lot like encoder inputs to me. The language in the manual suggests that they are linear encoders on the axe...

Hello, I've seen some DC motors with both tachogenerator feedback and encoder feedback. I see a lot of references to "measuring system" inputs on the controller and they sure look a lot like encoder inputs to me. The language in the manual suggests that they are linear encoders on the axe...