Wireless Pendant

introduction & intended use the wireless pendant is really useful for positioning and zeroing and other functions on the machine, it is not really suited for milling because there is no feel of the force, the milling bit will break easily the movement may not be entirely smooth the pendant is easy to use, and of course wireless it operates with batteries; the batteries will last about 1 month in normal operation due to the resolution of the pendant mpg, 100 pulses/revolution lower acceleration must be used to get smooth movement the movement with the wired pendant can so smooth motion with higher acceleration the wired pendant has 400 pulses/revolution please note, the rules for safety about using wireless pendants can vary per country the usage of this pendant is at your own risk operation put 2 aa batteries in the pendant when the pendant is not used it is recommended to switch it off, so the batteries are saved connect the usb receiver to the usb port of the pc the usb receiver must have a free line of sight to the pendant this means it will not work well if the usb receiver is built into a metal cabinet and the pendant is outside in setup 2/2, you can find the button for setting up the pendant after clicking, you will see an overview of the supported pendant models select the correct model it is likely that you need to select "model 3" once the use of the wireless pendant has been enabled, (re)start the software an additional program that communicates with the pendant is also started, it looks like the image below and shows information from the pendant it shows “pendant found” if everything is ok you can leave this running in the background, it will perform the pendant functionality for eding cnc the pendant itself has a timeout; this is to preserve the batteries it is important to know that after a few seconds of not pressing a button or not rotating the mpg, the pendant goes to a sleep situation where there is no longer communication with the pc in the sleep situation, the positions on the display no longer match the actual machine position and the software goes automatically out of hand wheel operation when a button is pressed or the mpg is rotated, it goes back to normal operation, and the positions are updated buttons button function reset same function as reset (f1) in eding cnc stop pause running job start/pause start a job or pause a running job feed+ increase the feedoverride percentage feed decrease the feedoverride percentage spindle+ increase the speedoverride percentage spindel decrease the speedoverride percentage m home perform the homing sequence, subroutine home all is called inside macro cnc you can customize the order of homing and do extra movements there safe z z to safe height w home if axis selector is off g0 x0 y0 if axis selector is on x, y, z, a, b, c zero axis work position tool radius of actual tool in spindle is considered for x and y so, if lower left corner of material is touched in x or y, the position is set to –tool radius, the result is that the material corner will be 0 s on/off switch spindle on/off probe z executes sub routine xhc probe z , you are free to implement this function inside macro cnc or user macro cnc continuous / step switch interpreter between single step and continuous running mode macro 1 macro 10 executes macro function xhc macro 1 xhc macro 10 press ‘ fn’ , then the required blue macro button you are free to implement his function inside macro cnc or user macro cnc axis selector select axis for mpg resolution selector if axis selector is on x, y, z, a, b or c select resolution for mpg if axis selector is on off change feedoverride mpg move the selected axis by mpg rotation macro programming pendant macro buttons "macro 1" through "macro 10" have their own macro they call a macro subroutine from macro cnc file you can define subroutines xhc macro 1 through xhc macro 10 in your macro cnc file add a subroutine with the right name in the macro cnc file to use this feature sub xhc macro 1 msg "this is xhc macro 1 button is pressed" ;add any edingcnc compatible g code here endsub for example, if we add this to the bottom of the macro cnc file sub xhc macro 1 gosub user 1 endsub then subroutine user 1 (user macro 1) will be called when we press fn+macro 1 on the wireless pendant setup and behavior the resolution (cnt/rev) of the mpg is 400 in some older copies, the resolution may be 200 if you have a machine with high acceleration it may be noticed that the move is not smooth this is because every count of the mpg gives a small displacement and if your machine has high acceleration the displacement is already done when the next count pulse is read this can be smoothed out by setting the speed and acceleration percentage lower, such that the movement is smooth enough for normal mpg operation the parameters are in the setup of the software cnt/rev the number of counts of the hand wheel for one revolution, usually 400 for most cnc hand wheels count counter for wired hand wheel, not used for the xhc pendant, normally 100 pulses/rev v\[%] percentage of velocity from the selected axis, this is the maximum velocity the axis will move when using the hand wheel a\[%] percentage of acceleration from the selected axis, this is the maximum acceleration the axis will move when using the hand wheel x1 x100 vel mode in velocity mode, the most important is that the movement stops immediately when the rotation of the hand wheel stops the position of the hand wheel will not be maintained if velocity mode is on the position of the handheld is maintained if velocity mode is off this also means that the axis may not immediately stop if the handwheel rotation stops when turning beyond the limits of the axis, you have to turn back the hand wheel the same amount before the axis starts moving again in our experience is that it works best to use velocity mode at x100 only these parameters allow you to tune the motion behavior such that it has acceptable smoothness and speed trouble shooting connection issues usb please use a direct usb 2 0 port on your laptop usb hubs may cause issues try a different computer before contacting your dealer, it is appreciated if you try the device with a different computer first, to rule out that the handwheel itself is defective software does not recognize the handwheel please try to enter safe mode of your windows computer and try to run the software then if the handwheel is recognized in safe mode, it is possible that there is some kind of software on the computer that interferes with the handwheel receiver