This morning I got an alert from the fedex saying some more parcels in my shipment were arriving today. Cool
Then I go online and check the last tracking number and find it too is now "out for delivery". Cooler!
Around 1 pm fedex truck pulls up, I run out to wait for the driver to disembark, and out come three more packages. I prompt the driver, "that's it, just these three"? He say's "sorry that's all".
To which I reply "That's cool, the final parcel should be coming sometime today on a later truck" and IMMEDIATELY another fedex truck rounds the corner 25 meters down the road!
Being a small quiet residential area that blew both my mind and the minds of the first fedex driver. I didn't have my cell phone to capture a video to post to the youtube.... damn.
SO, that means I have two DROs, 6 scales, 2 magnetic rpm sensors and two machines awaiting the addition of these instruments. Busy week ahead.
I will start by modifying the current magnet rotor design in fusion 360 to hold 5 magnets instead of 1 and then re-printing the rotor. I selected this method of mounting the magnets intending to make this very upgrade. I'm upgrading to a DRO that is multi-magnet capable via a simple software input. A nice improvement to the single magnet version I have on the lathe now when reading very low rpm.
This ring mounts on a two part hub with matching tapers that when tightened to draw the tapers into each other causes clamping forces on both the inner and outer rims.
The new sensor is the same diameter as the existing one, and the swap out with be fast and easy due to my bracket design. I may machine all these parts out of metal when I get a moment, for now they function well enough.