Do those superslants have brushless servo motors with encoder feedback? Did they usually have linear scales on them also.. or not?
1984 is pretty old for electronic controls. From what I have seen, not many 1984 machines operate with their original controls without some pretty significant "workarounds". Dave On 5/6/2010 4:21 PM, robert wrote: > >> The factory controls are Fanuc 6T with CRT and keyboard. >> This stuff is 1984 vintage. The machine actually has two >> of them, one for X and Z on the main turret, and a >> second for the Z that runs the end working turret. They >> share the same CRT and keyboard. >> >> > this is correct, the problem on these machiens now are the power supplys > in the back, as one PSU powers two motherboard etc, some models have two > PSUs not many. im finding with others with superslants this is getting > more common of a problem and is quite exspenive, this was casue of our > two of which we went the EMC route on. > > >> The original controls are capable of cutting with both >> turrets at the same time using two G code programs >> and M functions to stop and wait for sync points >> between programs. The EMC2 conversion shown in >> the YouTube video seems not to attempt this. >> >> > i am the retrofitter and user of that video, see the emc forum for the > full wirte up and info if any one is intrested. > this is correct, the old control had two controls in side, meaning you > could move and contour with both with the two programs running (as they > did make 4axes version, and power tooled 4 axes + spindle indexing > versions, which made it a much more powerfull machine, for 1985 was > quite advanced in its time i think) > i have used the two turrets running together a hand full of times on > jobs but with bottom drilling only its never realy needed or pratical > for many reasons, with the EMC as it is, u can move all 3 axes at once > no problem to a point, but can not do seperate program running on ether > turret, unless u wanted to have two EMCs running and talking to each other. > > rob > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
