How To Use Inductive Proximity Sensors

[tonyfoale]

Thanks tonyfoale! We've added your XY Limit Switch Setup to our Lathe Accessories category,
as well as to your builder page: tonyfoale's Homemade Tools.

To be accurate, this was on a lathe so they are X and Z axes not X and Y.
The spindle axis on a machine tool is usually called the Z axis.

[Jon]

To be accurate, this was on a lathe so they are X and Z axes not X and Y.
The spindle axis on a machine tool is usually called the Z axis.

Fixed, thanks.

[Tonyg]

Trigger points repeatable to 0.0001 inch (0.00254 mm)

[tonyfoale]

Trigger points repeatable to 0.0001 inch (0.00254 mm)

That is very good.

[Floradawg]

There are also magnetic sensors that look almost identical and they will detect either a N or S pole from a short distance just like these inductive sensors. They come stock with the inexpensive tachometers that I've installed on all my equipment:

Thank you sir. I have one of those and have lost the instructions with the hookup data. Now I can install it as soon as I do the 50 or so things in backlog. I have been working on a house to sell lately and it has been eating up all my time.