Quill Readout

[SlicedBread]

I have a Fryer vertical mill that has a linear encoder on the quill. It is a 5 wire incremental. Can I get a feed that into the Centroid Allin1 encoder port and get a reading from this?

[Centroid188]

Tech Bull 131 explains this.. Along with scale requirements. Yours at 1st glance is short one 1 wire to meet the spec's.

https://www.centroidcnc.com/dealersuppo ... ds/131.pdf

[tblough]

If your encoder is a 5-wire 5V TTL encoder, you can get single-ended to differential converters that will convert it to meet Centroid's specs of 5V differential quadrature encoding.

https://www.google.com/search?q=single- ... converters

[SlicedBread]

Thank you for the link to the Tech Bulletin. I read the it and from what I can see, it looks like the quill input requires a differential encoder. The encoder on the Fryer Vertical mill is an Anilam RMB-5T and looks to be an incremental with A, B and Z, plus +5v and 0v. Can this be used or configured?

[SlicedBread]

Thanks for the idea and the link @tblough . I like the converter from Encoder Products Co., however, the price tag is not going to be ok with the management here. Maybe I can find a less expensive version or just leave the space on the din rail for the future.

[tblough]

Converter chips are only $2 so super cheap to make your own.

[RTech]

Here you go: $6.50

https://cnc4pc.com/c72-differential-line-driver.html