All,
I am retrofitting a Bridgeport Boss CNC machine, using Gecko drivers and a Campbell controller.
One thing that I am trying to recreate is the oilier function. This is the oilier that oils the ways and bearings on the machine. According to the manual it shots oil once for every 30 minutes that the spindle is running.
Is there anyway to control this with MACH2 or MACH3? Or even better yet take some type of computation of how much X,Y,Z travel as well as spindle rotation has occurred and then come up with time frame as to when it should shoot the oil. I prefer the calculation method as even at 30 minutes it is too much oil. But just a simple timer would do if no other means were available.
Obviously I just need a TTL signal down the parallel port, and I can trip a relay with it.
Any thoughts?
Thanks in advance,
Chris