Adding a second monitor to the workstation

Having torn one apart recently, there are holes under the controller for cables to run in/out, but they velcro the computer down.

Shove something thin and strong under the computer to separate the velcro, it is GREAT quality velcro. See if you can slide the computer forward enough to get to plug your cable in.



Option two, there is a plate on the top of the cabinet that bots into the cabinet with two screws around the cable bundle going up to the monitor and keyboard shelf.
Remove those screws.
The controller just lifts up off the back, it is hanging on two posts.
Then you can get in the back of the cabinet with ease, do what you want, re-hang the controller and bolt the plate back on so the controller won't pop off unexpectedly.

Photos? I'm sure there is a way to get a second monitor easily. however...... if not....

nothing is impenetrable with enough force.

If I where to take the controller off Is there enough wire where I wont rip anything out accidentally, and is it overly heavy?

Unbolt the back plate. Easily accessible then.

Having torn one apart recently, there are holes under the controller for cables to run in/out, but they velcro the computer down.

Shove something thin and strong under the computer to separate the velcro, it is GREAT quality velcro. See if you can slide the computer forward enough to get to plug your cable in.



Option two, there is a plate on the top of the cabinet that bots into the cabinet with two screws around the cable bundle going up to the monitor and keyboard shelf.
Remove those screws.
The controller just lifts up off the back, it is hanging on two posts.
Then you can get in the back of the cabinet with ease, do what you want, re-hang the controller and bolt the plate back on so the controller won't pop off unexpectedly.

Is there plenty length of wire to do this? I

You mean to lift the controller off the back and set it down so you can work in the cabinet? Yes. Easy peasy.

If you mean on your monitor, no clue. You'd have to look at the cable you have, maybe get an extension if you want to run the cable down the back and bring it in the bottom, reach over the PC and plug it in.

The controller isn't heavy, but it is a bit unwieldy. I used a second person so we had good control in case a cable pulled. No cable pulled.

This is the way a single Hex tech put it together, after all. They can't have made the cabling too short or he wouldn't have been able to hang the controller on the cabinet in the first place.

But I still used two people to take the controller off and put it back on. Both times.

First I took a new CMM out of that cabinet because it didn't fit (the cabinet) in the space I have for that new machine. I hung a controller from an old CMM on there.

Then a second CMM, I needed to get the networking put in (didn't have IT here when the CMM was installed), and I didn't feel like trying to break my arm reaching around the PC from the front, so I pulled the controller, connected LAN and then re-hung the controller.

Both CMM's, both points in time, two people to remove and hang the controller. Better safe than sorry.

Excellent. Thank you very much. The owner just bought this cmm so when I tell him I need to a bit disassembly to add a monitor I want all the answers I can get.