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Mach Discussion => General Mach Discussion => Topic started by: curtisturner on May 25, 2006, 04:39:25 PM

Title: External Feedrate adjustment
Post by: curtisturner on May 25, 2006, 04:39:25 PM

Is there any way to put a remote (external) nob or adjustment mechanism to change the feedrate ?
example would be something that will connect to break out board for Parallel ?

Thanks
Curtis

Title: Re: External Feedrate adjustment
Post by: Brian Barker on May 25, 2006, 04:55:22 PM

The only way that I have done it is with a PLC and an analog pot :( But if you hook up two buttons (one for feed up and one for feed down) I can get them to work in Mach3 :)

Title: Re: External Feedrate adjustment
Post by: Hood on May 25, 2006, 06:06:50 PM

I am sure John P uses an external pot or rotating switch to adjust feedrate, might be worth a look in the wikis to see if hes detailed it there.
Hood

Edit
 had a look and John P uses it in conjuction with the ModIO

Title: Re: External Feedrate adjustment
Post by: vytass on June 27, 2006, 08:04:21 AM

I think we can use joystick port analog inputs. We use it in our aplication (not Mach). We use two axis 8 button USB joystick. X axis for   spindle speed, Y axis for feedrate and buttons for jogging (X,Y, Z ,Cycle start, Cycle stop). Works well. How we can use it vith Mach3?

Title: Re: External Feedrate adjustment
Post by: Brian Barker on June 27, 2006, 07:13:47 PM

This can be done but a plugin would need to be written...

Title: Re: External Feedrate adjustment
Post by: vytass on June 28, 2006, 05:12:17 AM

Let it be suggestion to include it in new mach version. You can  improve this  products with it usefull function.