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« on: May 13, 2012, 01:34:19 PM »
A 15 inch touch screen in my opinion is too small. If you do go with a 15 then you would ideally need to make up a screenset of your own with larger buttons and a lot fewer of them than the standard screen has.
I have a 15 on the coil winder I built and it works fine but it only has maybe 10 buttons total.
On my other machines I use 17's and even they would be fiddly with the standard Mill screenset unless using a stylus.
I have used three types of touch screens, Capacitive, Resistive and SAW, the latter I did away with as any liquids on the screen would move the cursor and it was too risky for me as I often have coolant on my hands and also the screen was opposite one of my manual lathes that splashed coolant everywhere. Of the other two types my favourite is the capacitive but that is likely just because it is a high quality overlay rather than a cheap Chinese one. Having said that the Chinese ones do work well.
Of course all of this is just my opinion :0
Hood