Shooting Star Technology has been providing Direct Read-Out units to the machine tool industry for over 12 years. Sartell Sales offers professional installation on your equipment.

 We have our own manufacturing facility as well as a fully equipped electronics lab and offer a 5-year warranty. Our customer list includes Boeing, NASA, M.I.T., and the Mayo Clinic.

The BT-3 is a 3-axis unit  (X,Y and Z).

The system includes scales with all mounting hardware, all cables and the digital display unit.

Both BT-2 and BT-3 work by counting the revolutions of a precision pinion on a rack with an optical encoder.

Scales

 

• Lengths: 16 and 48 inches (can easily be shortened by user)
• Resolution: 0.0005 inch
• Technology: precision rack and anti-backlash pinion, with optical encoder on pinion.
• Electrical: quadrature signals, TTL levels, 2000 counts/inch

Display Units

 

• Keypad: splash-proof membrane tactile keys
• Features:
  • Bolt Circles
  • Bolt lines
  • Presets
  • Tool Offsets
  • Power fail memory
  • inch/mm
  • diameter mode
  • INC/ABS
  • reversible count direction
• Display: 7 segment LED, 0.57 inch high digits
• Range: Readout to ± 99.9995 inch (± 1600.00 mm)
• Case: Rugged Steel, 8x3.75x1.5 inch
• Power: 110 volt operation