text: <s>[INST] Gearing questions I have a 1000ppr encoder on axis 1 (Sorter Drive) and 1000ppr encoder on axis 2 (Cut-N-Two Drive). At any given point, I need to go to half speed on axis 2 then back up following axis 1 in a short distance. The application is a Planer Sorter and a Cut-N-Two Drive. Currently I use the PLC to do this but at higher speeds I think gearing might be better. We run about 140 lugs per min so the other chain (Cut-N-Two) needs to hold back to create that empty lug as the board will be cut in two and later on down the line, we lift one piece up and set in back down in the empty lug. Each lugspace is one full turn of the encoder and I'm thinking about using a MO2AE Motion Card. Any ideas?? Thanks [/INST] Gearing (MAG instruction) is a great way to go if you are not concerned about position-locking the slave axis to the master axis. It's very easy to use and change on the fly. If you need to maintain position lock, using MAPC and MCCP instructions (cam profiles) are the way to go. 1 to 1 cam profiles look exactly like 1 to 1 gearing, but executing an MAPC means that the slave starts following the master at the same place every time. This is not the case with gearing. \\n </s>