Colleagues
I am getting close to finally putting this lathe together, stand is built and the electrical boxes are in, now its the main wiring and then just the placement of the lathe on the stand. As I accumulated parts for this retrofit, I was given a very nice little panel that came of a commercial machine. This panel has a light switch an e-stop and 4 push buttons on it for jogging the the two accesses. I would really like to incorporate it into the build.
The problem I see is I dont have enough input pins, I'm using just the one parallel port and a Homman BOB. The way I see it I would need Spindle feedback (1) Limits & E-stop can be put into one (2) Jog Z+(3) Jog Z-(4) Jog Y+(5) Jog Y-(6) , so there is 6 input pins needed.
How can I do this without adding another BOB or going to USB?
Also incorporated in the build is a 3rd motor driver for future use as either an X axis or Turret control.
Thanks
Katoh