Sounds logical to me. One of my machines with a Fanuc control handles the coolant as follows. 3 position switch up position - auto - m08/m09 controls the coolant middle position - off - coolant is off all the time down position - on - coolant is on all the time
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 9:30 AM, Igor Chudov <[email protected]> wrote: > On my Bridgeport Interact 2 mill, I have a maintained switch that > turns on either flood or mist coolant (MIST-OFF-FLOOD). > > The flood coolant is run by a pump that sits in the sump in the mill's > body. > > I have for now wired it so that I turn flood on and off from EMC (GUI > or G-code). Control from GUI works great. > > The MIST-OFF-FLOOD switch is not operational. It does nothing. I have > not wired it in any way. > > I would like to wire it with HALUI and I want to make sure that I do > it in a way that is not stupid. > > Here are my requirements: > > 1) If flood is set to ON on the maintained switch, then maintain flood > coolant whenever spindle runs. > 2) If flood is set to OFF, then just do as G code says or according to > a GUI input. > > Does this make sense at all? Is that a dumb way to control flood coolant? > > How would you suggest I do this with HALUI. I have not yet even > started hooking up any halui things, but now is the time to really do > it, as the rest of the mill is working. > > Thanks guys! > > i > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program offers developers who use the > Plug-In Development Kit to bring their C/C++ apps to Palm for a share > of $1 Million in cash or HP Products. Visit us here for more details: > http://p.sf.net/sfu/dev2dev-palm > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > -- dos centavos ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program offers developers who use the Plug-In Development Kit to bring their C/C++ apps to Palm for a share of $1 Million in cash or HP Products. Visit us here for more details: http://p.sf.net/sfu/dev2dev-palm _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
