Masso touch
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As we have been getting a lot of similar questions for MASSO Touch, we have created a MASSO Touch FAQ page in MASSO documentation and have answered your questions.
Please visit this link: https://docs.masso.com.au/MASSO-Touch-FAQ
Please visit this link: https://docs.masso.com.au/MASSO-Touch-FAQ
aussiemike
aussiemike
I m tempted by the Touch to install on my soon to arrive Avid CNC. Are there any pictures showing it installed? Or a CNCNutz review? I m guessing there ll be a quite a cable loom connected to it. Is it meant to be fixed to the machine, but pivots landscape to portrait? Does it move around the machine ( attached to a flexible loom)?
breezy
Moderator
Mike,
From FAQ
So you need to mount it one way or the other, unless you mount it it on a flex arm that can rotate 90*.
As for cabling that is up to you, but it will need to be anchored to the back panel.
Regards,
Arie.
From FAQ
- The rear panel also has mounting holes and a cutout for wiring, the user should make sure to cover or close these during installation.
So you need to mount it one way or the other, unless you mount it it on a flex arm that can rotate 90*.
As for cabling that is up to you, but it will need to be anchored to the back panel.
Regards,
Arie.
aussiemike
aussiemike
Thanks, Arie.
I ll probably leave it fixed orientation, but I do like the touchscreen on my Heavy Mill mounted to a swing arm. So I ll figure something out will all those wires. A new year project.
I ll probably leave it fixed orientation, but I do like the touchscreen on my Heavy Mill mounted to a swing arm. So I ll figure something out will all those wires. A new year project.
testyourdesign
testyourdesign
@aussiemike
I made my own touch screen panel using an IChawk K120-DUV2/12" inch open frame monitor from Aliexpress and a custom sheet metal enclosure that I cut out on my CNC router and folded on sheet metal brake. The Monitor Costs $130US and the enclosure took 1 day to build. The new Masso G3Touch is a nice turnkey solution but if you've done the work of building a machine a monitor enclosure is not a complex project. The IChawk Panel works very well with the standard Masso G2 and G3 controllers.
Hope this helps!
Cheers, Stephen Brown
Masso Club Member #1
I made my own touch screen panel using an IChawk K120-DUV2/12" inch open frame monitor from Aliexpress and a custom sheet metal enclosure that I cut out on my CNC router and folded on sheet metal brake. The Monitor Costs $130US and the enclosure took 1 day to build. The new Masso G3Touch is a nice turnkey solution but if you've done the work of building a machine a monitor enclosure is not a complex project. The IChawk Panel works very well with the standard Masso G2 and G3 controllers.
Hope this helps!
Cheers, Stephen Brown
Masso Club Member #1
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aussiemike
aussiemike
Thanks, Stephen.
You are quite right. It s not a big task to make an enclosure. Yours is very pretty. I m kinda put off by having the cables for all the inputs, outputs, controls, and power feeding the display when I can have the G3 in the control box and only power, video and USB feeding the touchscreen. That s what I have with my G2/router. I have an iChawk 19 that work perfectly. I haven t milled aluminium yet, but I do have a brake... challenge accepted.
Mike
You are quite right. It s not a big task to make an enclosure. Yours is very pretty. I m kinda put off by having the cables for all the inputs, outputs, controls, and power feeding the display when I can have the G3 in the control box and only power, video and USB feeding the touchscreen. That s what I have with my G2/router. I have an iChawk 19 that work perfectly. I haven t milled aluminium yet, but I do have a brake... challenge accepted.
Mike
safeairone
safeairone
That s a great looking panel/enclosure Stephen!
I am in the process of doing a similar thing with my iChawk touchscreen except that I m just doing the 16 x16 panel face only (in the style of a Haas control panel) and will attach it to this economical steel enclosure:
Even with the controller back in the electrical enclosure on the side of the machine, I ll have a bunch of cabling between this control panel and the electrical enclosure:
Still, it s not every home switch, limit switch, servo encoder and servo power wire (along with whatever additional input/output wiring I add to the system) going to this control panel enclosure.
Mark
I am in the process of doing a similar thing with my iChawk touchscreen except that I m just doing the 16 x16 panel face only (in the style of a Haas control panel) and will attach it to this economical steel enclosure:
Even with the controller back in the electrical enclosure on the side of the machine, I ll have a bunch of cabling between this control panel and the electrical enclosure:
- 15 pin D-sub cable
- 2 USB cables
- VGA cable
- 9 conductor, 18ga cable
- probably more that I m forgetting
Still, it s not every home switch, limit switch, servo encoder and servo power wire (along with whatever additional input/output wiring I add to the system) going to this control panel enclosure.
Mark
