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Brains Development / Re: Feedrate override with MPG

« on: July 24, 2012, 09:50:28 PM »

Did it with the help of Bob's brain. Tweaked it a little to work only when MPG jog LED is off and give out exactly one % FRO change on each click of DRO. Here's the brain I am using with Nemicon MPG connected to PP. Nice little add-on to my machining center.

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: Novamill

« on: July 12, 2012, 01:26:03 PM »

The lid cover control is original. M38 and M39, according to the original operator's manual. The spindle taper is bt30.

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: Novamill

« on: July 12, 2012, 05:15:58 AM »

Here's the video of Auto Tool Changer in action.

http://youtu.be/eEu08sZhiSc

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: O3N250

« on: July 11, 2012, 09:36:57 PM »

Very neat job Peter. The keyboard looks a little inconvenient when you need to type in MDI. Where did you get the pendant box.

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: Novamill

« on: July 11, 2012, 06:35:27 AM »

Here's the pic of Novamill with new control.

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: Novamill

« on: July 10, 2012, 09:44:51 AM »

Thanks Hood for the compliments. The Novamill is complete too. Here is the pic of first engraving test job on it. 800 mm/min rapids on all axes. Original motors with Gecko G250X's and smoothstepper USB. 6 position tool turret, pneumatic vice and pneumatic guard door. All functioning pretty good. Will post pics and vids later.

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Third party software and hardware support forums. / Re: wireless MPG pendant - has anybody tried this product?

« on: June 26, 2012, 07:23:38 AM »

I am busy with a few other projects. I'll try this one a few weeks later. Will sure ask your advise for it's setup when I get one in my hand.

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: Novamill

« on: June 20, 2012, 09:06:35 PM »

Novaturn is complete. Used Smooth Stepper USB and Gecko 540's on it. The steppers are giving 500 mm/min rapids. Initial turning facing trials have been done. Will try threading in a couple of days. I'll post videos of it after trials are complete. For analog FRO and SRO knobs I've used Arduino with modbus. Arduino is also controlling the input from the function buttons installed beside the LCD display. All other I/O's are handled by Smooth Stepper. All the original functions of machine are operational. I'll post more photos and videos of the machine in operation.

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Third party software and hardware support forums. / Re: Arduino Firmware for Mach3

« on: June 13, 2012, 09:33:09 AM »

Correction! Arduino Mega can can have 4 serial communications. I haven't tried it yet. I guess you can run modbus on serial0 and SCADA on serial1. I have experimented so far with Arduino Uno only.

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Third party software and hardware support forums. / Re: Arduino Firmware for Mach3

« on: June 12, 2012, 09:40:21 AM »

I don't think arduino can communicate on two serial connections at a time. Which modbus sketch are you using on arduino.

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