We are making progress with the conversion to Mach3 and Kanalog/Kflop.
We have figured the wiring for the Yaskawa Servopacks and have the cross slide (X axis) and the carriage/saddle (Z axis) traveling okay, although the servos still need some tuning, but we are impatient to get on.
Setting up the limit switches and the homing switches is the next step and should be quite straightforward, now that we have traced all the wiring.

The Hankook Protec 5N is basically a standard centre lathe which has been transformed to CNC by the addition of servo drives for the longitudinal and cross feeds.
There is no longer any manual control of those feeds. It is all electronic with handwheel encoders taking the place of manual handwheels.

The question is how do we connect the two encoders for manually controlling feeds?
Do we connect to the Aux#0 and Aux#1 on the Kflop?
How do we "disable" the handwheel encoders when Mach3 is in control and running a programme? (We don't want someone deciding that it may be nice to turn that interesting looking handle while the lathe is cutting a g-coded part.)

Ross

I shouldn't be calling them encoders - I just had a moment of rational thinking, which is getting rarer for me these days, - they are pulse generators on the handwheels.
Anyone with any ideas on how to configure these with Mach3?

--- In DynoMotion@yahoogroups.com, "fermanz" <ferman@...> wrote:
>
> We are making progress with the conversion to Mach3 and Kanalog/Kflop.
> We have figured the wiring for the Yaskawa Servopacks and have the cross slide (X axis) and the carriage/saddle (Z axis) traveling okay, although the servos still need some tuning, but we are impatient to get on.
> Setting up the limit switches and the homing switches is the next step and should be quite straightforward, now that we have traced all the wiring.
>
> The Hankook Protec 5N is basically a standard centre lathe which has been transformed to CNC by the addition of servo drives for the longitudinal and cross feeds.
> There is no longer any manual control of those feeds. It is all electronic with handwheel encoders taking the place of manual handwheels.
>
> The question is how do we connect the two encoders for manually controlling feeds?
> Do we connect to the Aux#0 and Aux#1 on the Kflop?
> How do we "disable" the handwheel encoders when Mach3 is in control and running a programme? (We don't want someone deciding that it may be nice to turn that interesting looking handle while the lathe is cutting a g-coded part.)
>
> Ross
>