Rob, I did what you said and had a little hickup in the middle but I re-read what you said and it worked out GREAT and I learned a lot!!! I wanted the OUTPUT LEDS for 7 and 8 to come on and flash when they were active ex. 1071 1081 and then go out when I typed Mcode 1070 1080. I had to invert the signal to do so, works awesome. Really pretty trick how this stuff works. I am in the process of having some machine work done on my mill. I had my G0704 Z column machined and HIWIN heavy duty linear rails and bearing blocks attached to it and squared to the world. The base is at a local machine shop here in KC being ground to square the bottom on the base to the top and the side where the Z column mounts. When I put it all back together, I should not need any shims when I TRAM everything again. I had the machine running before but when using G83 cycle the gibbs would jump around and I was breaking drill bits. That is when I decided to take it apart and do the Linear rail conversion. I am having a metal fab shop build me an enclosure that will have a V pan in the bottom of it with a screen to filter the big metal shavings then the finer ones will go through the filter prior to going into the coolant tank to be recycled up again. The reason for the extra relays in my control box are for a Powered Drawbar and an ATC. I have pretty much all the electronics done for it now except for wiring up a few more limit switches for the FABCO Pancake air cylinder and the ATC air cylinder.
Thanks for helping me figure that out. I have to read up on how to make a macro for the tool changer. I am pretty much copying Tormachs design with a few mods. I am estimating having about $900.00 To build both the PBD and the ATC combined.
Jeff