On Tuesday 14 February 2017 11:55:07 Jon Elson wrote: > On 02/14/2017 10:34 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings folks; > > > > Looking at man motion, I see that the axis."L".jog functions are > > quite well covered, particularly including the use of the inner, > > spin it with a finger type dials. > > On page http://pico-systems.com/pendant.html I have links > to the hal files for the pendants I have set up. > I can jog the axes as well as set the spindle override and > feedrate overrides with the pendant. > This can be done with 7 input pins including the encoder, if > counted via the software encoder component. > > If you use a hardware encoder channel, then it only takes 5 > digital inputs. I used diodes to encode the axis selector > switch, so i could use a single-deck switch, instead of > multiple pole. > > This hardware stuff doesn't apply to your presumably USB > controller, but the hal file might give you some ideas of > how to connect it up for jogging, etc. > > Jon > Not usb, some sort of a db9 setup on a per machine or per axis. But I just noticed a bnc on the back, presumably for house sync from back in NTSC days. Thats for the whole controll panel/pendant. I'll study the schematic for the pieces since I cabbaged that too. :) It turns out that I only have 2 complete units, I found the center, spin dial for the third, but not the outer dial. I may have decided they weren't salvageable due to their badly worn condition. I also found a spin dial I had made by making a white plastic knob for a teeny stepper motor, intending to feed its 6 wire coils to a comparator to get an a/b quadrature timed output I could feed an encoder module with. Possibility's endless, useability's less so. I'll take the manual for it with me as I head out to take my baby a valentine & a big box of chocolates. Who knows, I might learn something? > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >-------- Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's > most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
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