I have cannibalised a pair of 10 year old M-DRO 5 micron magnetic tape encoder heads (with 10 feet of cable and 9-way D-type connectors) from an M-DRO "Budget Console" lathe kit that back in 2010 did not garner good reviews on MEW. I assume today consoles are better and cheaper, so I am thinking I would not mind having a 3-axis milling DRO and wonder if these magnetic encoder heads are generic and will work fine with any magnetic tape DRO system and in doing so save me some money, or are some 5 micron encoder heads significantly better than others. These have an output signal of 5 volt TTL quadrature with 90 deg phase difference – is that the generic signal that most magnetic tape consoles use today?
Also any recommended budget Milling DRO consoles that take magnetic encoder input?
Edited By Adam Harris on 16/10/2019 17:14:29
Edited By Adam Harris on 16/10/2019 17:43:38