Purity Vendetta
Plastic
- Joined
- Aug 28, 2014
- Location
- Shrewsbury UK
Hi, my Bridgeport is fitted with a rather old Newall Sapphire DRO which connects to a pair of Spherosyn inductive encoder scales. These connect to the head unit via Bleecon connectors. I'd like to change the head unit for a more modern Chinese unit with more functionality. I was wondering if it's possible to make up converter leads to connect the old Bleecons to modern Sub D connectors? I do know that the Newall head unit has to be set to recognise the Spherosyn scales so am not sure whether the encoders output is compatabile with the inputs designed to take glass linear scales? I just can't afford a modern Newall unit but was hoping that I could get the functions offered by a modern 3 axis unit using the two existing scales and adding a new glass scale to measure the Z axis. Any thoughts gratefully received.