NCT Group NCT 100T, NCT 990T, NCT 2000T manual Manual Handle Mode

6.4Manual Handle Mode

6.4 Manual Handle Mode

Moving by the use of manual handle can only be done upon power-on state of the machine, i.e. when there is no EMG (emergency stop) state in the rightmost field (general NC state) of status bar. After selecting the operation mode in the 2nd field of status bar caption HNDL appears.

If the machine is mounted with NCT machine control board the manual handle mode can be

switched on by pressing the button.

Increment Selection

After selecting the operation mode an increment size must be selected. The selection and interpretation of increment size correspond to the ones discussed in the case of incremental jog mode. The increment size in manual handle mode shows the number of increments the slide moves by rotating the manual handle one unit of division.

Axis Selection

The axis to be moved by the manual handle can be selected on the OPERATOR’S PANEL or POSITION CHECK screen. After pressing the action menu key F2 AXES than the axis to be moved can be selected by means of softkeys.

If the machine is mounted with NCT machine control board the axis can also be selected by the jog buttons X, Z. In this case after select- ing the appropriate axis the lamps of both directions (e.g., +X and –X) are alight.

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