Onefinty control panel remote (gamepad replacement with lots of extra options)

Finished the remote controller box and everything is working great! Though one thing I like to change: the spindle shuts down after every cut (while moving trough the air). Kind of understandable but this stopping and restarting puts unnecessary stress on the spindle’s brushes. Also the dust collector relay is based on the same signal, and starting and stopping that so frequently is unacceptable. It’s pretty easy to code an extra delay (I already put in a 100ms delay to ignore PWM switching) like 3 seconds for the spindle and about 10 seconds for the dust collector… But is this desirable? Or is it more desirable to leave it like this and adjust the Gcode-generator (in my case Fusion 360).

[EDIT] A user on the Facebook group pointed out that there’s an checkbox option in the tool section “rapid auto off”. That seems to fix the problem!

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