Re: Pendant

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@egroups.com, "James Owens" <wotisname@l...>
wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Last week I posted the email below and haven't received a single

reply. Does

> this mean that out of the 890+ members of this list no-one has an

opinion or

> is there not interest in a device of this sort and I am wasting my

time?

>
> Regards,
>
> Terry
>
>
> Hi All,
>
> A little advice please. I am building a PIC based pendent which is

user

> programmable as to out-put speed. It should hook up to any system

that takes

> step and direction pulses and will drive 4 axis. You will have a

choice of

> single step and then three speeds from a list of twelve. What would

be the

> slowest and the highest speeds that would be most useable. This

device will

> drive any machine from Lathe, miller to router. I realise that the

router

> people would like a top speed around 600 ipm but I am limiting it

to about

> 200 ipm on this version. There will be a completely programmable

pendant

> once this one is completed.
>
> Terry

Would be nice to include a rotari encoder to send pulses to the
controller,just like the ones on the real machine centers and a
switch to switch between xyz axis.

hope you get the help you need.
Fogassa.