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Thanks for the tip.

Doug Danielson

Wayne Lundberg wrote in message <6uon7q$s0g@bgtnsc03.worldnet.att.net>...
>The machine I described, using a stepper motor triggered by pulses from an
>optical encoder on a 90 degree shaft with vernier adjustment of a take-off
>wheel is now obsolete. If I were to build another machine I would use the
>Basic Stamp and program it to accept variable input being the wire diameter
>then asking it to pulse out X number to the stepper controller. This would
>eliminate a shaft flywheel, a separate shaft mounted on precision linear
>bearings, another pierced wheel for the photo cell, the photo cell and
>related circuitry and have infinitely variable control for whatever wire
>size I would be winding.
>
>I'm sure a simple 555 would do the same but I never could figure out how to
>get an RC circuit to pulse exactly, and without error, to the stepper
>controller nor could I figure out a simple dial-in for wire size.
>
>What we have now with this simple device is an easy and repeatable method
of
>synchronizing the horizontal axis to the motion of the main shaft for any
>given wire diameter.
>
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