rley
04-16-2015, 05:32 PM
Hi,
We have PRS Alpha that was ordered from shopbot with a 2nd Z axis. Over the last 3 years, the 2nd Z axis has hardly been used and I'm curious if it would be easy enough to switch the existing 2nd Z axis driver already installed in the control box over to driving a new (identical) stepper motor on a custom indexer we would make (likely based on the Rikon wood lathe other's have used).
It would seem that this would be partly a software change whereby the old A axis (2nd Z axis) would be reassigned to the 4th axis on the indexer?
Ideally, this change would be something that could also be saved as a separate config file so in the event we wanted to go back to using the 2nd Z axis at some point in the future, it could be a relatively painless procedure.
Thanks for any input.
We have PRS Alpha that was ordered from shopbot with a 2nd Z axis. Over the last 3 years, the 2nd Z axis has hardly been used and I'm curious if it would be easy enough to switch the existing 2nd Z axis driver already installed in the control box over to driving a new (identical) stepper motor on a custom indexer we would make (likely based on the Rikon wood lathe other's have used).
It would seem that this would be partly a software change whereby the old A axis (2nd Z axis) would be reassigned to the 4th axis on the indexer?
Ideally, this change would be something that could also be saved as a separate config file so in the event we wanted to go back to using the 2nd Z axis at some point in the future, it could be a relatively painless procedure.
Thanks for any input.