Variator control - Schaublin CNC - Ep.30

Hook up and testing of the CVT on the Schublin 125CNC lathe retrofit to LinuxCNC. 00:00 - Intro 00:45 - Encoder hook up 02:30 - Water pump repair 03:05 - What are pickle forks? 05:38 - How many volts is 5VDC? 06:11 - So what is a variator? 09:41 - Does it work? 10:31 - How should linuxcnc control all of this? 11:45 - Speed range There is a discussion of this on the LinuxCNC forum here: https://forum.linuxcnc.org/26-turning... Here is an example of a LinuxCNC component (which was written by a mate to control the Maho gearbox.)