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« on: January 08, 2009, 02:24:01 PM »
The Index pulse is a single pulse per revolution from the encoder, it allows very precise homing. The drives I have can do all sorts of homing moves one of which is it will look for the index pulse only, this is useful for a toolchanger or a spindle for example. It is not much use for an axis however as the index is seen once per revolution. Another way which is perfect for homing is you connect a switch into the drive, it will seek the switch and then it will look for the index pulse.
I have heard great things about Tom from Rutex USA, but quite a bit not so good about Rutex. If however you look on the general forum you will see that Chip uses the predecessor to the board you are looking at and he says it works well.
Hood