Recent content by foxey

If it were mine I would use the 15A fuse. Foxy

I was thinking that way but Doggggboy beat me to it. Seriously though this is the simplest and most cost effective way to go. Arduino has a whole family of controllers and any one would do the job. They are easy to program and simple to learn if you have not done it before. Also it would...

I did something similar some years ago. I took a CD disk, milled 60 slots in the edge, mounted it on the back end of the lathe spindle and mounted a slot sensor (LED & phototransistor) to detect the slots. An Arduino Nano counted slots per second, calculated RPM and displayed it. Someday I'll...

Just a quick CV . Susqu-- There's no trick to getting old -- just sit around doing nothing and sooner or later you're old. As for me, I made a living as an electrical engineer designing mainly electrical controls, automatic and otherwise. I've been interested in metal working (and many other...

Been looking for something like this. I'm an old geezer (93), retired electrical engineer worked mostly in control systems design. Got my first machine, an Atlas 618 lathe (Craftsman) way back in 1965 or so (can't remember exactly), and a few years ago a hybrid mill-lathe. Current project is...