Re: [Emc-users] Announce about dial jogging

[Gene Heskett]

On Friday 28 April 2017 15:49:11 Chris Albertson wrote:

> That is good news.
>
> BTW I ran across another version of that jog dial.  One of them in a
> pre-built housing.  More money but less work
> ...ebay.com/itm/Universal-CNC-4-Axis-MPG-Pendant-Handwheel-Emergency-S
>top...
> ergency-Stop-for-Siemens-In-US-/232181395804?hash=item360f16f15c:g:omQA
>AOSw2xRYWjrU>
>
> I'm still going DIY route as I want an LCD display on the pendent too.
>

Just for the DRO, or fawncier yet, Chris?

I thought about that, but decided the on-screen DRO was good enough since 
both of my dials are on the replacement apron plate and lcd down on the 
apron seems out of the normal view.  Theres the matter of the r-pi's 
limited horsepower too. Being stuck with limited color framebuffer video 
sucks, but the big drag is the mouse usually needs 2 clicks to recognize 
one.  htop says it is not working that hard though.

I have a cover of sorts made to hide the x ball screw & keep 99% of the 
swarf out of it, some 10 thou SS shimstock covers it nicely. It was 
uncovered a wee bit behind the slider when it was moved in to nominally 
centerline. So after home switches, the next thing may be a 3d printer 
so I can make swarf covers over the drive belt for the x axis.  Looking 
for one thats pellet fed as thats about 20% of the cost of an equal 
poundage of plastic string. Found one but gotta figure out how much 
1.75mm string I can buy for the diff in machine cost.  I get the 
impression pellet fed is faster because its a more rigid frame for the 
heavier printhead. But with zero experience for comparison, it may be 
wishfull thinking on my part.  It would be plowing new ground for me in 
any event.  And my plow is getting duller as the years creep by.

> On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 12:14 PM, Gene Heskett  
wrote:
> > Greetings all;
> >
> > I found my logic mistake, a # in the wrong place.  Then I finished
> > hooking it up to motion for actual movements.


Cheers, Gene Heskett
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Re: [Emc-users] Announce about dial jogging

[Chris Albertson]

That is good news.

BTW I ran across another version of that jog dial.  One of them in a
pre-built housing.  More money but less work
...ebay.com/itm/Universal-CNC-4-Axis-MPG-Pendant-Handwheel-Emergency-Stop...


I'm still going DIY route as I want an LCD display on the pendent too.





On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 12:14 PM, Gene Heskett  wrote:

> Greetings all;
>
> I found my logic mistake, a # in the wrong place.  Then I finished
> hooking it up to motion for actual movements.
>
>
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Chris Albertson
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[Emc-users] Announce about dial jogging

[Gene Heskett]

Greetings all;

I found my logic mistake, a # in the wrong place.  Then I finished 
hooking it up to motion for actual movements.

I can now enable the jog dial, touch off that axis, punch the button to 
bring it to life, and twist the dial back and forth better than half a 
turn for at least 30 seconds, bringing the dial back to the zero mark at 
the end, look up and the video DRO is again sitting on 0., for 
either axis.  4 seconds after the dial stops, it is disabled until a new 
cycle is started by pressing the button again.

Needless to say, I'm a happy camper!

Anybody else interested?  I'll copy that config to my web page, but 
haven't yet.  Yelp if you need it. It _still_ doesn't have any home 
switches hooked up.  I promise thats next. :)

But I went back out to do that, reached into a storage drawer that had a 
teeny pill bottle in it, with the x home switch and a mount bracket for 
it in it, only to find that about a thousand small resistors in a heavy 
duty sandwich bag, and a much bigger bag of 6800 uf, 65 volt capacitors 
was gone.  And never found the pill bottle either.  And there is no one 
in this neighborhood who would have the foggiest idea what either bags 
contents were actually for.  Still scratching my head on this.  If they 
came in and grabbed them out of that drawer, they knew exactly what they 
wanted, and walked right on by quite a pile of far more expensive stuff.  
And that makes no sense at all.

Must be time I round up the key for the back door, and put one of those 
we don't call 911 signs on it. And an x10 motion detector.  Heyu is 
running and logging everything, but theres nothing in the garage to send 
to the logs.  Gotta fix that. 28 years here, and only one electric drill 
has gone missing.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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