Hi Marty thank you for you opinion and information , all is about make some compromise between what i like and us knowledge i believe everything is possible if you know,and because i don't i have to compromise ) lot , Ok i was check up the pendant and look very good i saw couple programable buttons what can i programming for? you mention Ether 1616 it is add and connect with acorn can i true this control for example axis manualy ? even i saw on pendant you can do it ( button- feed hold ) how is work? you have to hold and is go in one direction probably and how is go back ? by jog?martyscncgarage wrote: ↑Mon May 10, 2021 12:06 pm If you are intent on building your own control panel, you are going to need more inputs than Acorn has. You will need Ether1616
You have one encoder port. That is for a Spindle Encoder
If you want to experiment that's fine and up to you. We can't tell you what to do.
I would abandon the idea and buy the Wireless MPG.
I don't know what you are trying to accomplish with "TAPER" buttons/knobs. You do that with the CNC CAD/CAM software.
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I(We) can't tell you want to choose that will work for your particular application. That is up to you. There is some Engineering that goes into selecting drives/motors for the given application. You can search the internet to find similar machines and try to see what is working for them and do something similar. We can't engineer the system for you. We can make suggestions but in the end, its up to you to make the decisions what will work for you.
You ask me what for is the taper buttons -very often in manual mode you need shamfer edge or you like to make raper cut in some angel so is easier to quickly set up angel by turn dial on scteen you see angel and by taper button you activate this tuttons and you can turn in taper ocourse is possibile to do it in program but meaby only meaby is faster to do it ba this way? is possibile activate this type of function by add Ether 1616? thank you very much Marty regards Roman