On Wednesday 29 April 2009, Jon Elson wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Tuesday 28 April 2009, Jon Elson wrote: >>> I made my own jog pendants for both my Bridgeport and minimill. I >>> bought an HEDSS jog encoder from a Hong Kong (I think) seller on eBay >>> for what I thought was a somewhat inflated price. But, I couldn't find >>> anything else, new or used, for a better price. Then I used a pair of >>> miniature rotary switches I had in my junk box. I also have a jog >>> enable button and an estop button. I put those buttons where I can work >>> them one-handed, while wrapping my thumb around to move the jog dial. >>> Very convenient! >>> >>> Jon >> >> Got links to pix, Jon? > >I don't have a pic of the minimill pendant, which I just built a few >weeks ago. I like it better than the earlier one, as it uses a smaller >jog encoder and is just smaller overall. But here's a pic of my >Bridgeport unit http://pico-systems.com/pendant.html >That is a 3" MPG encoder there, so that gives the scale of the whole >thing. The HEDSS encoder is a 2" unit, so the whole thing is scaled >down to about 66%. > >Jon
Neat! Thanks Jon. > >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >-- Register Now & Save for Velocity, the Web Performance & Operations >Conference from O'Reilly Media. Velocity features a full day of >expert-led, hands-on workshops and two days of sessions from industry >leaders in dedicated Performance & Operations tracks. Use code vel09scf >and Save an extra 15% before 5/3. http://p.sf.net/sfu/velocityconf >_______________________________________________ >Emc-users mailing list >Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Too ripped. Gotta go. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Register Now & Save for Velocity, the Web Performance & Operations Conference from O'Reilly Media. Velocity features a full day of expert-led, hands-on workshops and two days of sessions from industry leaders in dedicated Performance & Operations tracks. Use code vel09scf and Save an extra 15% before 5/3. http://p.sf.net/sfu/velocityconf _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
