So I'm seeing a significant problem with the pendant not responding to the first press of a button or quite a few clicks on the wheel. This seems to occur anytime I use anything on my mill (pyVCP panel button, or pendant button) that runs MDI commands. The first time I do it it works fine, but then the jog wheel doesn't respond for a long time, sometimes a couple of spins, then suddenly starts.
That's a really sucky condition. Also, buttons don't seem to respond to a press, but it seems to be the named buttons (IE Safe-Z, W-Home) that behave this way. You have to press 2 or 3 times to get them to finally send a HAL signal. The little block indicating transmit happens but nothing gets to HAL. I've watched on the scope and this has been fairly repeatable.
It's not a reception problem. it can be in the same position and work the jog dial all afternoon but as soon as you execute something that goes into MDI mode to run, the problems begin.
Anyone else experiencing this?
The jog wheel taking several seconds to start moving is the worst part. That's not a good situation if a larger incremental value is selected as you never know how many clicks you need to give it before it starts moving and then it may go a lot further than you planned.
