Encoder connection for threading on lathe

Hello,
I was hijacking another guy's similar thread about roughly the same subject, but I should really stop cluttering his thread now and make my own.
I have now bought some of the very common Chinese AC servos on aliexpress (Lichuan with A5 drives), and will be using them as both axis and spindle motors.

The spindle motor will drive the spindle with a 1:1 ratio, so the plan was to just use the encoder output from the servo drive as-is, directly into the encoder input on the 7i96s.

I have understood that an index pulse will be enough to do threading on the lathe (both single point and rigid?), but will it be beneficial to feed the A+, A-, B+ and B- pulses also? or will it just complicate things?
 

1 PPR threading should be OK with a servo spindle (its no good if the spindle speed varies)
But there is no direct support for this with Mesa encoders so its probably easiest to use A/B/I

Theoretically you could connect the drives index to the encoder A and I inputs and use interpolated position
but this has not been tried AFAIK.

Edit, I just tried this and it does seem to work:

1. Connect 1 PPR signal to Mesa encoder A and I.
2. Set encoder scale to 1 and count mode true.
3. Use encoders interpolated position (this may be in LinuxCNC 2.10 only)

Thank you PCW, I also see your post edit that I can actually just connect my 1PPR signal to the Mesa, though to both A and I connector.
PS: I suppose i would use ENCA+ and IDX+ on the Mesa card, and OA+ and OZ+ on the servo drive.

If you wouldn't mind PCW, just for the sake of learning something new today; why do you suggest doing this? Will there be an advantage over just connecting them all up? I mean, I have all 6 outputs readily available on the driver, and all 6 corresponding connections on the mesa card.
or what about using it as a single ended encoder, with just A+, B+ and Z+ connected, which to a newbie liek me seems like a more "complete" setup, but still saving a little on connections.


 

 
 

I would use all 6 connections (fully differential)
just because its simpler to setup, has better noise
immunity than single ended, uses the standard hal setup,
and does not require LinuxCNC 2.10

I was mainly pointing out that 1 PPR threading should work well
with servo spindles since they should run at a very constant speed
(unlike say a VFD with varying load and LinuxCNC just guessing the
speed between index pulses)

That makes perfect sense, thanks