[AMTB]

How to install pendant to EMC2 machine?
Machine based on EMC working http://www.conceptmachinery.com/
it be interesting to install pendant to it

[wendtmk]

What kind of pendant, and what kind of interface? Joystick, MPG? USB, parallel port? How many pins required to interface the functions of the pendant to the controller?

Mark

[AMTB]

I am using MPG type pendant. My machine based on EMC2 software and it is working as you can see on web AMTB
base information here EMC Documentation Wiki: EmcKnowledgeBase
and here
EMC Documentation Wiki: Hooking Up A MPG Pendant
also here
Jogging EMC2 | anderswallin.net

i do not know very good coding so i can not install my mpg pendant to my emc2 machine.
i couldn't get help from EMC2 list that i can use so , pendant is not joint to my machine
Thanks
Aram

[wendtmk]

Okay, so it's an MPG. is it a home-made MPG, or one commercially available? I've got both an MPG pendant and a joypad hooked up to my machine (likewise running EMC2). I bought my MPG and adapter from Keling the MPG3 and C22 adapter:

Services - look down towards the bottom of the page.

I didn't need to do any coding to make the MPG work, other than enabling the second parallel port and editing the ini file so that it recognized the custom.hal file. I used the code from this site (slightly edited because I only have a two axis machine, X and Z) and cut and pasted into the custom.hal file:

MPG2 Jog Pendant | chembal.com

Mark

[AMTB]

hi
I bought my MPG from PC for CNC Autol Dunkan. It is similar business to Kelling.
MPG home made or manufactured is same. MPG is a box where JOG wheel with A-A B-B and +5 and ground. Also switches XYZ ans increment switch.
I am using EMC2 machine and i think to plug in MPG to EMC2 machine need code.
Do you use EMC2 software to run your machine?
LinuxCNC.org - Home ???

[wendtmk]

Aram,

Did you read any of what I wrote or click on the links I gave? It pretty much spells out everything you need to do to connect the pendant to the PC and it gives you all the code you need to make the pendant work with EMC2. Not sure what other help I can give you. And I even said in the reply that I use EMC2.

Mark