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    Default Anyone out there converted a rennishaw probe fromoptical or inductive to wired?

    Hi All,

    I was chasing a secondhand probe and a company I used to work for has a couple but their inductive and the sensors are U/S. One is optical so the question is for both really.
    Has any one "been inside" and converted a rennishaw probe to wired by picking up the signals on the inside? Would prefer wired as they had dramas with the optical set up and I don't intend on tool changing it. MP1's I think or MP1M

    Cheers Mick

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    Hi Mick,
    I remember seeing a thread on the subject. If I recall it was in the Yahoo Mach3 forum.



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    Thanks Air gunner, couldn't find anything on the yahoo groups but thats probably just operator error, did find this though is that what you were thinking

    http://www.cnczone.com/forums/vertic...be_head-2.html

    Seems to make sense that the switching would be the same just the upper body does the infra red or inductive stuff.

    Mick



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    Hi Mick,
    That's the thread I was thinking of!
    Hope it helped mate.
    Eric



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    Thanks Eric,

    Gave me confidence, bought one its a MP1S, on the side where the inductive unit is their is a 5 pin din plug. I removed the 2 cap screws and the inductive part just unplugged. I metered the pins and found pin 2 and 4 go open circuit when the probe is moved. Don't know what the others do...... Checked them in all the directions and on the 2 and 4 change. I'll knock up a solid state relay ciruit and get the local fanuc bloke around to hook it up to the machine OM-C.

    Thanks again for the lead searching for modification - didn't even think of retrofit.

    Cheers Mick



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