John Warren
09-23-2014, 9:10 PM
While the Trotec rep was here calibrating my laser, he mentioned the ability to connect other pieces of equipment to the laser (I believe he was saying it was done through the connector for the rotary). He gave an example of a customer who had used actuators to open the front door of the laser and slide the table out automatically when the job was done.
I had already been thinking of a mechanism that could speed up my production process if I could get it in functioning and have it be computer controlled. But I hadn't considered having it actually communicate directly with the laser sending/receiving signals to know when to move to the next stage. I've got a couple of different scenarios where this could be immensely useful.
I was wondering, if anyone here had any experience doing anything similar. Essentially connecting a non-standard piece of equipment to send/receive the same type of signals as a rotary but performing a different task in response to those signals.
If so, how complicated it something like this going to be? Are there any resources out there detailing the requirements of connecting something in that way?
I had already been thinking of a mechanism that could speed up my production process if I could get it in functioning and have it be computer controlled. But I hadn't considered having it actually communicate directly with the laser sending/receiving signals to know when to move to the next stage. I've got a couple of different scenarios where this could be immensely useful.
I was wondering, if anyone here had any experience doing anything similar. Essentially connecting a non-standard piece of equipment to send/receive the same type of signals as a rotary but performing a different task in response to those signals.
If so, how complicated it something like this going to be? Are there any resources out there detailing the requirements of connecting something in that way?