Igor Chudov wrote: > John, my parallel port is occupied by the PPMC motion system, that's why I > would prefer a USB interface. I do not care for any sort of real time with > a MPG. > On the other hand, the PPMC has enough digital input pins to do a nice pendant, especially if you are not using all the separate limit switch inputs. See http://pico-systems.com/pendant.html
(I thought I had a schematic of the pendant wiring for the PPMC, but it is very similar to the way the minimill pendant is set up. I'll try to get that drawing on there shortly.) These use diodes to encode the switch settings, so you can hook up 7 axis selections (XYZAB plus feedrate and spindle override) and 3 jog rate selections with only 5 digital inputs. Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Don't let slow site performance ruin your business. Deploy New Relic APM Deploy New Relic app performance management and know exactly what is happening inside your Ruby, Python, PHP, Java, and .NET app Try New Relic at no cost today and get our sweet Data Nerd shirt too! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
