Here is a photo of the Pokeys pendant I am making. It's still under construction. I have to coat the front plate or perhaps paste a printed screen onto it. I have yet to decide on the casing too. I am planning to machine one from Polypropylene block and then paint it. Anyways, it uses a Pokeys55, one 20x4 LCD module, 7 momentary switches, one MPG, 2 wire wound pots and nine LED's. I am using Pokeys plugin 10.4 and the firmware 2.1.19. Mach3 v3.43.37 with MachMAD. A bunch of macros are used with it along with a macropump and a brain. I have yet to test it on my machine.

The green LED next to the MPG shows the MPG On/Off state. The middle button on bottom row switches the MPG on or off. The left button on bottom row is for selecting MPG jog axes. The LED's on top of that indicate the axis selected. The right button on bottom row is for switching between MPG jog modes. The LED's on top of that indicate the selected mode. The pots are for FRO and Spindle override. The four buttons on top row are soft selected depending on the Mach3 screen selected. Their description appears in the bottom row of the LCD.

Zafar

Nice work!  Good to see someone using MAD for custom stuff as well!!


I did a plugin for Peter's MP-03 pendant kit, that does all kinds of crazy stuff with mach3. Check out the thread under MP-03 (modbus),
and on the CNCzone.

Let me know if you want to move all those brains, macros etc., into a single plugin package......

Scott

Nice work!  Good to see someone using MAD for custom stuff as well!!


I did a plugin for Peter's MP-03 pendant kit, that does all kinds of crazy stuff with mach3. Check out the thread under MP-03 (modbus),
and on the CNCzone.

Let me know if you want to move all those brains, macros etc., into a single plugin package......

Scott

Scott,

I've seen that thread on cnczone. I was always fascinated by that project. That's why when I got my first Pokeys, the first thing I tried with that was to build a pendant like that one.

About your offer to write a plugin for it, I'll give it a go once I am satisfied with the configurations with different setting on a variety of hardware combinations I normally use on retrofit machines. I am using MAD for triggering inputs from the soft switches in the top row and assigning macros to those key presses.

Thanks for the compliments.

Zafar

Hello Zafar intesting what you have made how did you have solve to get the 2 variabels on 1 line can you give me a example of it I like to do somehing the same but whit other as and other dro
Benny

Hello Zafar intesting what you have made how did you have solve to get the 2 variabels on 1 line can you give me a example of it I like to do somehing the same but whit other as and other dro
Benny

Benny,

It's the power of Pokeys which enables me to use upto 5 analog inputs into Mach3. With the help of Macropump in Mach3, you can assign them to any DRO. Get Pokeys from www.poscope.com and experiment. You'll love it's functionality.

Zafar

Hello Zafar

I have buy more as 4 pokeys and till now I use them as a mormal pedrant en from one I ise the anolog input to control the speed of my EDM wire machine.
But now I gone use the LCD display on it but I gone use 4 axis X Y V and U as later maybe a C axis.
But I like to use my LCD better and not the first 10 charaters of the display, so I like to put also other information on the display example speed and from the jog the step 0.1 0.001 are 0.001 I was look of expamles how it is writen in the Marcopump till now I have found not match how to do it what words to use and when to use ; . , and it is always about the details.
Did you find some examples?
Are how did you write you marcopump
greetings Benny

Hello Zafar

I have buy more as 4 pokeys and till now I use them as a mormal pedrant en from one I ise the anolog input to control the speed of my EDM wire machine.
But now I gone use the LCD display on it but I gone use 4 axis X Y V and U as later maybe a C axis.
But I like to use my LCD better and not the first 10 charaters of the display, so I like to put also other information on the display example speed and from the jog the step 0.1 0.001 are 0.001 I was look of expamles how it is writen in the Marcopump till now I have found not match how to do it what words to use and when to use ; . , and it is always about the details.
Did you find some examples?
Are how did you write you marcopump
greetings Benny

Benny,

Here is my macropump. I am sure you'll get some idea from it for your LCD display.

If getoemled(800) Then
  setuserlabel(201, "EStop Button Pressed")
  setuserlabel(202, "Emergency Mode Activ")
  setuserlabel(203, "....Press Reset....")
  setuserlabel(204, "  www.karacnc.com   ")
Else
  setdro(21,getoemdro(2202)/1023*250)
  setoemdro(74,getoemdro(2203)/1023*250)

  setuserlabel(201,"X"& Format(getdro(0)," 0000.000;-0000.000")&" F"&Format(getoemdro(818)," ####00"))
  setuserlabel(202,"Y"& Format(getdro(1)," 0000.000;-0000.000")&" FRO"&Format(getdro(21)," #00.0"))
  setuserlabel(203,"Z"& Format(getdro(2)," 0000.000;-0000.000")&" SOv"&Format(getoemdro(74)," #00.0"))   
  setuserlabel(204, getuserlabel(101))
End If
                   

I am interested in Wire EDM setup of yours. Are you using Mach for it? How are you handling the wire reversing routine? I have a couple of Chinese Wire EDM's which have given me excellent performance over the years (one of them is 16 years old). If some day their control acts up on me then I'd like to give it a retrofit with Mach.

Zafar

Hello Zafar
thanks for the example of the marcopump.
about the EDM wire machine i have development my one small EDM wire machine and it is to make small piece to use a didatical model in school ore for people that it like to use for hobby.
I work whit Mach3 my friend Edu in Brazile whit EMC2 and there is a men Helmut Hummel in Canada I don't now what he use.
So the problems whit Mach3 and EDM wire.
so if Mach3 have to run more as 36 hours you get problems the program stop are it will go out a direction what not is  plan.
So the reversing if you have a short circuit I don't use it I have to to do it this way in mach  push feed hold start reverse run start go back forward feedhold and then start.
but for a g1 and G0 it will work but not for G2 and G3
But at the moment I control the feedrade whit analog voltage that coms from the generator. I have ask on Art if hee would make some change on the program in Mach 3 for EDm wire like to reverse run but he was not intrest in it.
my website whit some photo www.microspark.eu
greetings Benny if you have some quistions ask it

Benny,

I had no idea Mach3 behaves like this after 36 hours of operation. Maximum duration I've run it so far is 10 hours for milling machines. Also I didn't know reverse run doesn't operate with G2 and G3. That's an excellent job you've done there and the types of parts made on it are wonderful. How much cutting speed do you get on 25mm thick steel? The max. I get is 1 mm/min.

I see you are using brass wire there. The machines I have use Molybdenum wire which is recycled till it becomes thin and breaks up. The Molybdenum wire also runs through the job at higher speeds (6 to 12 meters/s).

Zafar

Hello Zafar

About Mach3 I have some project where I have to cut 100 hours and then I put every 24 hours the computer off and start it up again, so about the G2 and G3 that the arc will go out another direction.
so about the part that I have made a lot I have more as 3000 hours cutting on the machine i have developmet.
so for 15mm I can cut 0.5mm/min and 45mm I can cut 0.15mm/min
But thus depend on the genrator this I have develoment buy my self and there is work on.
But I recycled also the brass wire I use it 2 are  times if don't have to cut the wire to match.
But I have hire that Art of mach 3 is gone write a program for EDm wire.
But I have change the file that you have send me and it works but I have to make some change and look how I have to solve some problems.
But my wire speed is 2 a 3 meters/min
greetings Benny