Summary
Calibrating the Z-axis starts with finding the motor encoder resolution, gear ratio, and ball screw pitch (for example, a 24-bit encoder, 1-to-1 gear ratio, and 5mm ball screw pitch), which are then used to set the correct calibration values in the control.
Hi everyone, it’s Josiah with MachMotion. We’re about to calibrate the Z-axis on the C.R. Onsrud Panel Pro. So the process we’re going to go through for that is we’re going to take the motor encoder, the gear ratio, and the ball screw pitch and we’re going to plug all that data into our plug-in in the software and it will spit out the number we need. So we know this is a 24-bit encoder on a signal seven motor we have a one-to-one gear ratio up top here and a five-millimeter bolster pitch so without data we can simply plug that into our machine calibration plugin hit select and it will automatically do the work for us.
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