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« on: September 09, 2008, 03:12:24 PM »
Hood,
My Geckos, BOB, power supplies, etc. are mounted in an enclosure behind the mill - basically inaccessible, and a fair distance away. The PC is right next to the mill, a few feet from where I sit. So, the pendant is more logically connected directly to the PC, rather than to the BOB. So, a PC PP connection makes more sense. As for the performance aspects, as I reported in the original post, my pendant, connected through SS, is virtually useless for other than very coarse jogging. The shortest button press I can manage moves on the order of 0.100" or more. Sometimes much more. With the pendant on the PP, I could easily jog about 0.010". The length of the button presses on the pendant are obviously being affected by the latency of communications with the SS. I'm using the latest SS plug-in, just downloaded last night.
Here's another "anomoly" I discovered in my first attempt to do some real work with SS today - I normally do 2.5D milling, with manual Z moves, as I haven't yet had time to mount the servo to the Z axis. Each time a Z move is required, an M00 is inserted, telling me where to move it to. Trouble is, the G-code display in Mach is no longer synchronized correctly, so the M00 lines are a few lines above or below the highlight in the G-code display. This sometimes leaves me having to flgure out which of the potential Z moves is the one I should be doing right now. Not good....
Regards,
Ray L.