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24-02-2015 #1
I'm in the process of building a new control box with higher voltage drivers, new BOB etc.
The front panel will have various new controls such as power on/off, e-stop, ancillaries (lights, pump,etc.), VFD on/off and speed, all of which will be hardware controlled through simple circuits.
I'll also add buttons to control cycle start/feedhold/stop, and feedrate override up/down buttons. I'm hoping to do this bit through something like pokeys. Now to my question.
To control the feedrate override up/down I will have 2 seperate momentary push button switches to increment the feedrate in small steps, emulating a keyboard input. Is it possible instead to employ some sort of rotary momentary switch? The idea being that as I turn an infinite dial it clicks past detents which send a pulse to the pokeys system to emulate a key push. I think there would be two sets of detents so it would know whether the dial is being turned clockwise or anti-clockwise.
I've been looking at this:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/5-Pin-Digi...ht_1230wt_1190
Would this do it? If so, how would you expect the 5 pins to be wired up?
Thanks
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24-02-2015 #2
Doesn't need to be that hard.? The Pokey's has 7 Analog inputs so just use 0-10V and a POT. Can do the same for Spindle override as well.!
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24-02-2015 #3
I'd not studied the pokeys system in detail so thank you for that. I assumed it was just a simple keyboard emulator, but obviously not.
As it happens I over-ordered on pots and have a 10k spare one which would be ideal. I have 12v in the control box so I guess I could put a resistor in series with the pot to get 10v across it?
I'd thought about spindle override software control but in the end I decided to run direct manual control using a pot to the VFD. I tend to cut the same things so don't change speed much.
Thanks again
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24-02-2015 #4
I am also interested how a pot will do the feed override. The CSMIO IP has this function in their plugin but as I understand from their manual, you have to decide whether to use the mach3 feedrate or the manual pot. I cannot imagine a way to do the override (+/- of the mach3 feed value) with a pot.
Last edited by paulus.v; 24-02-2015 at 10:43 PM.
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24-02-2015 #5
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25-02-2015 #6
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25-02-2015 #7
No problem Paulus - it was all the same theme.
Here is an artists impression of my latest version. Switches are all on order but due to Chinese new year will be mid to end March before they arrive.
Still a bit of tidying up to do but you get the idea. The up/down triangles for the feedrate override would now be a simple pot, same as the spindle speed pot.
Thanks
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