Pan & Tilt CCTV heads

[wilson logan 1Participant @wilsonlogan1]

The chap in the unit next to mine does CCTV and I wrestled an old pan & tilt head off him for £120 (I think they were about 10 times that when new).

It comes with its psu/control unit.

I’m thinking… stick it on a forward – back axis and whop a grinder in front of it and it might be the start of a CNC grinder.

I got the camera as well which is an old CCD unit but the lens is nice.

Thoughts?   Alternate uses?

Cheers,

Wilson.

[modeng2000Participant @modeng2000]

Probably best used for its original purpose.

[wilson logan 1Participant @wilsonlogan1]

Where’s your spirit of adventure ?  🙂

This is a quality piece of motion control equipment.

I’m most of the way through making a 5 axis cnc grinder and if I’d had this at the start it would’ve saved me a lot of bother.

TBF it’d have made the machine a lot bigger but I think I’d have sacrificed footprint for the bump up in stiffness.

This is the controller.

 

It has pan & tilt as expected plus zoom, focus & iris control so it has 5 proportional channels plus another 5 boolean channels.

So that’s 5 motion axes plus 5 more potential on/off options.

 

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Looks like you’re onto a winner with that idea, Wilson

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