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Someone on here (Chuck Fellows?) had fitted their lathe, possibly a minilathe, with a 3 phase motor and inverter. This allowed them to stop in half a turn using a micro switch to sense the carriage position. This will only work with a camloc/bolted on chuck.
...I can count mine on the fingers of three hands.