MPG Pendant Macro help request

[Dale]

No electronics on the PCB. The C10S BB can support both Pull-high and Pull-low inputs.

Hi Dale,

I made a little table, could you fill it? And which ports/pins are connected to the encoder?

And one more question. Do you have any electronics on this pendant or is it just connected to the I/O pins? I ask it because the input pins have built-in pull-up resistors, so if there is no electronics in your pendant then you have to use low level column selection.

[ger21]

The M6 macro has a Message Box, to stop the macro and allow the user to change tools (M6 set to automatic toolchanger). He wants to click the OK on the messagebox with his pendant.

[dezsoe]

Gerry,

Because M0 works wrong in a macro, I wrote a pause macro. exec.Code("M0") will execute after the calling macro has finished. Calling this macro while waiting for tool replacement (and M31 if needed) from M6 works fine. The other advantage of this pause macro is that you can continue with Cycle Start, even if it is pressed on a pendant or a trigger input. The middle of M6:

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  exec.Code("M20900"); // Pause
  while(exec.IsMoving()){}


I put a LED on the Start button to show pause state:

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And here is the macro:

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if (!exec.GetLED(54)) return;                                                   // No Cycle -> no pause

int PauseLED = Convert.ToInt32(exec.Readkey("DASH", "PauseLED", "499"));

while(exec.IsMoving()){}

exec.Stop();
while(exec.IsMoving()){}

exec.SetLED(true, PauseLED);
while(exec.IsMoving()){}

while(!(exec.GetLED(54) || exec.Ismacrostopped())) exec.Wait(20);               // Wait for Cycle Start or Stop

exec.SetLED(false, PauseLED);


You can replace the read of PauseLED number with a constant, I always use values from the profile.

Feel free to use this pause macro instead of MessageBox in your screenset if you like it.

[ger21]

Thanks, I'll take a look when I have time.

[dezsoe]

Dale,

Did you make a new PCB for the pendant or the pin mapping is wrong? I cannot pair the text file with the PCB.

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                Col1                  Col2
                Port 2                Port 2
                Pin 01                Pin 14
Port 2 Pin 02   Feed +/-              Z Select
Port 2 Pin 03   C/V                   Y Select
Port 2 Pin 04   Zero X,Y(Work Zero)   X Select
Port 2 Pin 05   Home All              Goto Home
Port 2 Pin 06   Start/Hold            Zero Z TLO
Port 2 Pin 07   Cycle Stop            Goto Work Zero leave Z alone
Port 2 Pin 08   Tool change Complete  Spindle +/-


[Dale]

Your holding the PCB upside down. Spin it 180deg.
I did remake it, using holes to solder wires to, but the rest is same.
Dale

[Dale]

I opened the case for you to see.
Cheers!
Dale

[dezsoe]

Oh, yes! The PCB is changed, I see. Thank you!

[Robertspark]

Has this been done, or is it still waiting?

[my holidays are over and things will now return to normal whatever that means so I'm about to have another look at this]

Some of these button functions are fairly easy, the ones that got me were the spindle speed and feedrate adjust via MPG (encoder) input without MPG button codes select, as the X, Y and Z can all be selected via button codes 220, 221 & 222

[dezsoe]

Not yet. I have other things to complete first. All the functions are easy to do, I will show it later, but I'm struggling with the easyest job: reading the keys. I'll be back in some days with the details.