Kirk Wallace wrote: > If you say you can hold and operate your pendant in one hand, I'll have > to reconsider my opinion. > I have a button that has to be pressed for the MPG to move the machine. I think this is important, as I sometimes bump the dial by accident, and the thought of the machine zooming off when I bump it is scary. So, I would have to hold the pendant and press the button with one finger while turning the dial with my thumb. My second generation of the pendant makes this possible, but it is not completely ergonomic. I have that pendant on my minimill, which is used for shows like the CNC Workshop, and I don't usually machine anything on it. So, I haven't really used that gen 2 pendant very much. Someday, I may redo the pendant on the Bridgeport, and I might make a mock-up first to get the most comfortable positions for everything. > What I'd like to see, is a way to make these MPG encoders cheap enough > that several could be mounted to the machine, such as, to have one for > each axis. This would come close to allowing a CNC to operate like a > manual machine. Maybe I'll get to it this summer. > Well, I've gotten pretty comfortable with the one dial for 3 axes. Our Bridgeport/Romi lathe at work has dials like that, so when it is in manual mode, it is supposed to feel very much like a manual lathe. The guys at work use it that way probably more than they use the CNC feature.
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