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News Release from: ACI (UK) | Subject: Acu-Rite 100S DRO
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 09 June 2006
Digital readout adds a new dimension
The addition of third-axis functionality to the highly successful Acu-Rite 100S digital readout brings simplicity and affordability to the low-end DRO market.
ACI (UK) reckons it has brought a new level of simplicity and affordability to low-end digital readout (DRO) technology by adding third axis functionality to its highly successful Acu-Rite 100S DRO With fully functional numeric keyboard, the uprated 100S is also presettable - its predecessor wasn't - yet is available at the same price
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 23 Aug 2000 at 8.00am (UK)
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Complemented by the new and highly durable SENC 50/150 precision glass scale technologies that have resolutions of 0.5, 1 and 5um, the development represents an unrivalled cost-to-performance package for user-friendly three-axis milling, turning, grinding or general purpose applications.
It is the latest in a recent series of DRO announcements concerning the ACI (UK) Acu-Rite and Anilam product ranges that have pushed the boundaries of DRO technology while retaining the products' established reputation for user friendliness at a competitive price.
With digital LED, the Acu-Rite 100S DRO's functionality - absolute/incremental display, instant inch/millimetre conversion, preset and zero rest capability, tool offset, instant radius/diameter conversion, multiple display resolutions, linear error compensation, message prompts, error checking and selection count direction - are complemented by the new SENC 50 and 150 precision glass encoders.
Developed at Acu-Rite's state-of-the-art, multi-million-dollar manufacturing facility in the USA, SENC scales adopt a radically new construction process based around the use of reflective light (rather than that transmittive light) for measurement, using a reader head that is mounted on the scale's top face.
With advanced roller bearing technology for reduced backlash and greater scale travel life, the result is a high-precision glass scale that is more resistant to machine inaccuracies and vibration, and therefore more durable, than existing products but available at comparable cost.
SENC 150 is available in lengths of 50mm to 3.4m, and SENC 50 is available in lengths of 25 to 500mm.
Both systems feature Acu-Rite's exclusive Position-Trac functionality that allows operators to accurately and quickly re-establish workpiece zero from any position after a power interruption.
Once power is restored, the DRO reads a line pattern on the glass scale to recall the last known zero.
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