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Jogging Keyboard
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Overview
With the jogging keyboard, you can manually jog your CNC Machine over all 9 axes (4 in the case of Mk3/4). A speed potentiometer is used to adjust the speed, and there is an additional button for step functionality and alternative functionalities.
Features and specifications
Single jogging keyboard offers:
- 8 jog buttons
- shift button
- JOG box header for connection with Mk3/9 or MK3/4 motion controller
- speed adjust potentiometer
- reserved pin header pads for SHIFT, ALT1 and ALT2 pins
- reserved space for additional box header(user can create flat cable for connection with additional hardware)
Jog button 1-8:
- jog buttons for axis jogging
- by default, jog buttons jog machine over X,Y,Z,A axes
- each button can have alternative step functionality
| jog button | Description |
|---|---|
| X1 | jogs machine in X- direction |
| X2 | jogs machine in X- direction |
| Y1 | jogs machine in Y- direction |
| Y2 | jogs machine in Y+ direction |
| Z1 | jogs machine in Z- direction |
| Z2 | jogs machine in Z+ direction |
| A1 | jogs machine in A- direction |
| A2 | jogs machine in A+ direction |
SHIFT button:
- when jog button is used in combination with SHIFT button, machine will jog in step distance mode
- step distance is configurable
| jog button | Description |
|---|---|
| SHIFT + jog button | jogs machine in step distance mode |
Speed adjust potentiometer
- User can adjust the jogging speed by rotating the potentiometer rod from min-max value.
JOG box header:
- box header is used for connection of jogging keyboard with Mk3/9 or MK3/4 motion controller
JOG box header pinout:
Additional box header space:
Additional box header solder pads for flat cable connection of custom hardware(e.g. buttons/switches for ALT1, ALT2 and SHIFT).
Pinout is identical to JOG box header.
Shift and Alt pin header space:
User can solder pin header or buttons/switches for ALT1, ALT2 and SHIFT directly to these solder pads.
Typical application
Jogging keyboard is connected with controller at the JOG box header using a 16pin flat cable.
PlanetCNC TNG software settings configuration:
In File/Settings/User Interface/Shortcuts → under Jog chapter and Pin column, software already has set input pins by default:
Since external jogging keyboard also supports Shift key, which in combination with any other jogging key initiates step Jog motion, you can set these shortcuts also:
Under File/Settings/Jogging/Keyboard user can set jogging speed, potentiometer centre value and timeout value:
