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Re: Z height probe automatic macro
« Reply #10 on: May 11, 2025, 05:17:38 AM »
Yes, exactly the same touch probe.  Based on the original and much copied Renishaw invention, at a sensible price.  I've not yet really got into using it properly but it seems to work well.  The cable connections at the probe use a USB-C socket but it is NOT USB compatible, you have to use the cable they supply which has open wire ends.  Also the USB plug doesn't go right into the socket so don't expect it to.  Nice that the probe has a low profile and small diameter arbor, only 6mm.
Re: Z height probe automatic macro
« Reply #11 on: May 11, 2025, 06:16:06 PM »
Thanks for the feedback John. I may need your help with the wiring into the controller box when I am ready if you don't mind, or is it just a suck it and see strategy? Good comment about Renishaw, I had a probe in my office which we had bought for touching off, at the time I was consulting for BTR Nylex in China and I swear that after my lecture to machine operators about the cost of the thing, it never moved! I used to look at it and try and work out where the cost came from, I can only assume the ruby was mined from some exotic location in outer Mongolia. Have a good one.