Can't stop adding new features

   More ideas keep popping in my my head for the nozzle screen set. The use of modbus has enabled me to implement more features. May not need them all but they are there if I need them.


    Features:
   1) auto tracking of depth of cut
   2) auto aim at bottom of tool
   3) air cleaning of tool
   4) air blast nozzles
   5) auto park of nozzles at tool change
   6) sweep function
   7) special  function for up to 6 tools (combinations of 1 through 6)


       To the right is the special function page. When the tool number DRO matches the number on this page it will automatically run the combinations in the table. The number of tools can be increased to more than 6, but the brain gets hard to see after a curtain size. The default is (0) so if  a job uses 10 tools and 4 of them use the auto tracking for depth of cut this works out OK.
     The sweep column is for setting the angle of sweep from the bottom of the tool.

 The page to the left is same as before with some extra DRO's for the auto aim at the bottom of tool.

 To the right is the brain that controls the auto tracking of the right side. This has 3 trig functions to triangulate the the angle of the nozzle. The number of brains are adding up I think there around 8 of them. Some are simple and some have up to 20+ inputs.
Its also easier to keep things more organized by breaking things down to smaller separate functions.
 
There is also the arduino sketch that keeps growing. but that's for a different post latter on.

Testing nozzle screen set

    Below is a video of how the set up page and controls work.

Wiring of servo power supply. The capacitors are a little
over kill,but help filter out noise.  In the video I'm using a 9 volt wall wort.
On the machine it is a 12 volt din rail power supply.

     

Nozzle screen set

With the capability of using modbus with the arduino. I can now get rid of the knobs on the control pannel. They will now reside in the mach3 screen set with a set up page. This way less wiring and hard ware is needed. The set up page will allow the system to be adapted to almost any mill using mach3.  My goal is to make it an easy DIY project

I'm thinking of making a couple of different screen sets from basic auto aim to air blast options.

setup and main page

  So far I have the setup page and the brains are done. The brain contains three trigonometry functions to adjust the nozzle angles automatically according to tool depth,length and width. When drilling or slotting the nozzle will stay at the top of the part being machined.