Okay, now that I have examined this Yaskawa "panel" pendant now and then over this week, I have learned a bit about it(a little bit).
The latest Mach3 plugin that Pokeys supplies along with their software basically takes care of most functions of the panel, and just three brains handle a few assignments for coordination of the buttons with LEDs, and feedrate override.
I like it!
One anomaly noticed was that the three multiplier buttons that select the jog step increment distance were reversed. That is, pressing the x1 button actually selected the x100 increment...related to the first three positions within the general configuration of Mach3. The x10 button was correct. These three buttons can actually be set to any increment multiplication using the Mach3 configuration. But to stay with the physical buttons on the panel I needed to do something about that error on the yaskawa panel.
So after some digging, I discovered the three codes in Pokeys that relate to the increment positions of Mach3's configuration....buttons 191,192, and 193.
I reversed the assignments for 191 and 193. This got the buttons to select the correct multiplication factor and preserved the Mach3 configuration.
Remember, I'm green at this and want to learn about the Pokeys relationship with Mach3. It seems very powerfull.
But now another problem popped up. the LEDs that were associated with the specific button pressed were now opposite... that is, pressing the "handle x1" button lit the "handle x100" button.
So I didn't know what codes refered to the LEDs...what do I do?
Well, I looked into the brains, as previously I knew that the LEDs did not work at all if the brains were not enabled.
Here the LED numbers specific to the panel's increment buttons were discovered...1504, 1505, and 1506.
So I decided to try modifying the brains and switched the 1504 and 1506.
That did the trick. The LEDs now followed the button selections and displayed the correct multiplication factor.
Now, After learning the LED code numbers, I was able to find them in the Pokeys Mach3 configuration Plugin and thought I could exchange the 1504 and 1506 in there. the matrixes of the Keyboard and LEDs align in the same row and column locations. But for now, I have left the brain modification as the working setup.
This has been a giant leap for me in learning about "mapping?". But I am still at a loss as to how the LED code numbers were derived. Looking in the LED code lists makes me think that they were just chosen off-the-cuff and as long as they were directed properly, things should work.
Time for more customizing, as my basic working knowledge has improved slightly and might enable me to alter other configurations to my liking.
I am much interested in getting the MDI button on the yaskawa panel to actually set up the LCD(at least the fourth row) to show a curser and allow code input.
This would make going back to the keyboard to input unnecessary. As it is now, The MDI button on the panel simply opens the MDI screen on the Mach3 screen.
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