The digital counter on the machine is kinda cool. It doesn’t just count the number of times the machine rotates but will shut it off when it gets to the number that’s programmed in. We’ll I manually turned the machine and measured how much rope was made to get me a turn per inch ratio to calculate from. It’s actually 1.543478 inches per turn. Asleep yet?
Well wake up! The manual I found online for the counter is in Chinese so I really have very little understanding about how it really operates and I can only mess with it while the machine is on which is only when the generator is burning fuel. I hate standing in the workshop trying to figure something out while the generator is running. Like how much fuel did I waste?
Today I decided to burn some fuel and play with the counter. I was able to enter a new screen where I can change the increments the counter counts by. I accidentally changed it to 10 and when I started the machine it started to count by 10’s! So I changed that from 10 to 1.5435. I ran the machine a bit and sure enough, 60 on the counter was 60″ on the winder.
So now I can eventually change that to an even more useful number like feet or even meters.