>What I do is I use my MPG to twiddle handles when moving manually. I can >control the spindle, zero DRO axes, etc all via the MPG. This mill (with >quill) uses the XHC-HB04 MPG pendant, wired version, and it's great. I'm >thinking of CNCing my last manual mill...
>Just my two cents (Canadian); >John. Thanks everyone for your feedback and sorry for being slow in getting back to you. Been tied up w/ your standard distractions (job, family, health, etc)... Chris - You proposed simply leaving LinuxCNC in 'machine off' mode going to the GS2 VFD and operating it manually. That's probably how I'll do it when I get started, but the issue is that I plan to operate the VFD via Modbus from LinuxCNC and I'll have to change the setting that determines where the VFD receives its input. This is sorta like me trying to remember on the Home theatre which button to press to have the computer play. It's either Aux or Port, I can never remember which... So, I'll have to fiddle w/ a few settings, I'd rather not do that, but it's probably the easiest. And, I'll have to go inside the electrical cabinet. This will work. Kirk - I'll definitely look at the python code you provided the link to, thank you. I think that is probably the route to take. What it sort of amounts to (I could be wrong about this) is having two HAL setups... One w/ servo's and one w/ out. I'm thinking a patch might be to take a pncconf HAL setup, hack it up removing everything I don't need and leave the encoders. But, your setup looks like it'd do the same. Once I'm setup I'll play around w/ it. John - I like the MPG pendant. That's one of those 'round to it' projects. I'll use a mouse to do that to begin with... I still have to learn how to use Axis better and everything else... Thanks again - Mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ New Year. New Location. New Benefits. New Data Center in Ashburn, VA. GigeNET is offering a free month of service with a new server in Ashburn. Choose from 2 high performing configs, both with 100TB of bandwidth. Higher redundancy.Lower latency.Increased capacity.Completely compliant. http://p.sf.net/sfu/gigenet _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
