Just coming into this discussion now !! I too want the option to disable the servos and use the machine manually with the dro. Hence my choice of servos and linear scales. I have South Western Industries mill now it is both manual and CNC and I wouldn't change it for the world. PS it doesn't have a pendant and I wouldn't ever want one.
Just a note - Estops should be a hard wired and when activated, it stops everything and is only ever used for emergency or a serious fault detected. Nothing else. As for the VFD speed, use switch or relay to engage a pot that sets the speed in manual, same switch could be used to tell LinuxCNC it's in manual mode. . Cheers Wallace ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ New Year. New Location. New Benefits. New Data Center in Ashburn, VA. GigeNET is offering a free month of service with a new server in Ashburn. Choose from 2 high performing configs, both with 100TB of bandwidth. Higher redundancy.Lower latency.Increased capacity.Completely compliant. http://p.sf.net/sfu/gigenet _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
