I am sure it can be done.
Has anyone made external speed and feed over-ride controls using potentiometers?
I am sure it can be done.
Has anyone made external speed and feed over-ride controls using potentiometers?
Super X3. 3600rpm. Sheridan 6"x24" Lathe + more. Three ways to fix things: The right way, the other way, and maybe your way, which is possibly a faster wrong way.
Not sure if there is anything out there already, but it may be better to look at the common commercial O/R method of using a Binary switch, 4 bits give you 16 steps/switch.
Al.
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Albert E.
I will design a method. Just thought there maybe a way it is typically done already. No point reinventing the wheel, so to speak.
Needs to be at least 8 bits to be fine enough to be practical.
I suppose you could up/down button, but that is not nice, and the latency would make it awful to use.
An 8 bit switch if it must be digital.
Can always make an 8 bit output A/D converter, but it will need gray code output so every step is different. Then how do you feed that into Mach3?
That is a lot of bits for 2 pots, using a parallel port.
USB, maybe, but will latency be an issue?
I suppose an MPG type input could be made to work.
Super X3. 3600rpm. Sheridan 6"x24" Lathe + more. Three ways to fix things: The right way, the other way, and maybe your way, which is possibly a faster wrong way.
The easiest way is probably with a Pokeys.
PoLabs - Affordable PC USB oscilloscopes, logic analyzers and USB interfaces
They have analog inputs and apparently work well. Never used one, though.
Gerry
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I see there is a plugin for Contec PIO boards, I am surprised that by now no one has developed a PC Based PLC for Mach using these cards.
All the preferable operator hard wired functions such as feed hold and feed overide, spindle O/R etc could be done digitally this way without messing with analogue inputs etc.
A resolution of 255 is hardly necessary for most overides.
Al.
CNC, Mechatronics Integration and Custom Machine Design
“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”
Albert E.
The PoLabs idea looks good with the plugin, and 10 bit is more than adequate!
Any other ideas out there? Now we are getting somewhere.
Super X3. 3600rpm. Sheridan 6"x24" Lathe + more. Three ways to fix things: The right way, the other way, and maybe your way, which is possibly a faster wrong way.
Looks like you can use a ModIO as well.
Touch Screen and panel controls using ModIO - MachCustomizeWiki
MC-01 ModIO Controller [MC-01] - US$98.00 : Homann Designs!, The preferred CNC Component Supplier
Gerry
UCCNC 2017 Screenset
http://www.thecncwoodworker.com/2017.html
Mach3 2010 Screenset
http://www.thecncwoodworker.com/2010.html
JointCAM - CNC Dovetails & Box Joints
http://www.g-forcecnc.com/jointcam.html
(Note: The opinions expressed in this post are my own and are not necessarily those of CNCzone and its management)