John, I thought that USB based pendant would be the nicest, esp. if it can act as a keyboard or some such.
On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 12:46 PM, Jon Elson <el...@pico-systems.com> wrote: > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
