Can Hickory control two spindles?
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Can Hickory control two spindles?
I'm looking at getting a Miyano lathe for the cost of gas to pick it up, it has a subspindle and live tooling on the turret (no Y axis), I know that Hickory has two analog outputs but looking through the manual it seems like the parameters are all describing *one* spindle. Slaving one spindle drive to the other might be a possibility but commanding them separately would be preferred.
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Re: Can Hickory control two spindles?
PLC customization could get a command to the second spindle. If the subspindle is required to do CSS or threading, that may not be possible at this time.
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