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[Al_The_Man]

This is the Home made HW box, a fanuc HW again from ebay.
A source of Handwheels and portable pendants like this is Sumtak. They also have the components separately including the mult-conductor curly cord.

[HuFlungDung]

Thanks, Al. Interesting. So do you have this machine producing chips yet?

[Al_The_Man]

Hu, The first one Acromill(see 1stPic) is.
In fact I made the panel cutout on this one for the Camsoft one I have yet to finish.
Will post a pic when done. One thing I prefer is to keep things like feedrate & spindle o/r as hard wired switches as I do not think they lend themselves well to touch screen or mouse applications.
Also I like to use cycle start, feed hold and spindle stop as h/w buttons. I also want to integrate a measuring touch probe I picked up for this machine, I am looking for measuring probe macro's I can adapt (hole center, material edge etc,etc) rather than re-inventing the wheel.
Al

[HillBilly]

I made this interface board to accept the original ribbon cables and wires going to the control panel. I converted them to the DB25 output, just like the CamSoft pendant, and used the HandHeld I/O logic.

HillBilly

[HillBilly]

This is the control panel.

HillBilly