Greetings; How hard is it to add another keyword display pin to either iocontrol, or to motion, so that when multi-speed or multi-gear headstocks (both of my machine have 2 speed heads) so that the status of the gear changing can be both displayed, and controlled by a checkbutton like the coolant stuff is now?
It bothers me that to effect a gearchange, essentially a higher gain between the pid and the pwmgen, used to negate the effect of the physical gear change on the tach slider and near-at-speed displays and buttons by speeding up the motor to compensate. Presently to do that, I am hijacking the flood button. But that means I am the only one on the planet who knows the flood button is actually the gearchange function. :( This should be done in a manner that allows for truly multi-gear spindles as exist on the larger machines, not limited to just a checkbox as mist and flood are now, but possibly with a 1 or 2 digit display flanked by up/down buttons no bigger than a checkbox button is now. The present ccw,stop,cw buttons look like they ought to be re-usable code if the graphic could be replaced by up and down arrows & stop replaced by the physical gear number, or high/low for us 2 speed people. As a side, it would be neat if that gearchange signal could be incorporated into the various postgui tach displays to effect a change in the range of the displays maximum. Not much use having a display that tops at 1500 revs showing 150 revs for a rigid tapping operation. :) Thanks for reading this far. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> US V Castleman, SCOTUS, Mar 2014 is grounds for Impeaching SCOTUS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Meet PCI DSS 3.0 Compliance Requirements with EventLog Analyzer Achieve PCI DSS 3.0 Compliant Status with Out-of-the-box PCI DSS Reports Are you Audit-Ready for PCI DSS 3.0 Compliance? Download White paper Comply to PCI DSS 3.0 Requirement 10 and 11.5 with EventLog Analyzer http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=154622311&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
