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''You can click on the image to see a bigger version.''<br><br>
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It may look medieval but it worked to process a 20 inch and a 16 inch mirror.  Over 500,000 moves!  OUCH LOL.  I have the huge servo motor ( >100lbs ) / driver, ball screws and ball spline still.  Don't know what you think about doing that sort of thing but I guess its secondary.  However I sense you have a very organized approach to a build.  The guy who handled mech on this project was a hack(understatement!) A friend and I wrote the VB app to pump data into an LM628 chip that sent the signal to the servo amp.
It may look medieval but it worked to process a 20 inch and a 16 inch mirror.  Over 500,000 moves!  OUCH LOL.  I have the huge servo motor ( >100lbs ) / driver, ball screws and ball spline still.  Don't know what you think about doing that sort of thing but I guess its secondary.  However I sense you have a very organized approach to a build.  The guy who handled mech on this project was a hack(understatement!) A friend and I wrote the VB app to pump data into an LM628 chip that sent the signal to the servo amp.
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Revision as of 19:12, 11 March 2007

You can click on the image to see a bigger version.

It may look medieval but it worked to process a 20 inch and a 16 inch mirror. Over 500,000 moves! OUCH LOL. I have the huge servo motor ( >100lbs ) / driver, ball screws and ball spline still. Don't know what you think about doing that sort of thing but I guess its secondary. However I sense you have a very organized approach to a build. The guy who handled mech on this project was a hack(understatement!) A friend and I wrote the VB app to pump data into an LM628 chip that sent the signal to the servo amp.

Media:MirrorMachineMovie.mpg