Hi, I'm giving some help to a friend that start a mechanical manufacturing shop. First machine to get running (in a few week) will be a 3 axis small CNC. This machine shall be no problem from what I have done before with LinuxCNC.
but.. He asked me If I can restart an old CNC Lathe, that is powerer down for several year. On first try, CNC control went ON, but of course machine as loose all parameter. Taking the board out to change battery, now the CNC control don't want to start anymore... most probably some stress or bad soldering appear.... CNC ctrl (OSAI 8600) seems to be obsolete... even spare part start to be cheap! I don't know If I am better to loose some time trying to restart this old control, or loose some other time to start a retrofit ... Mechanics of the machine is quite clean and powerful (17kW spindle). I take a few minute to check the kind of encoder, and it is TTL encoder (resolution 1um). I have the hardware manual, there is some valve and motor I still don't get the usage, but basically, It look like a perfect candidate for a retrofit. What is your feeling ? (I will try to keep the installed servo, as this is expensive hardware, And I may save big time If I simply replace CPU) In case I go forward with this project, I will need some informations... some I have mind are: - how an hydraulic turret tool changer work ? - what frequency and what ratio (ON time per period of use time) I must use for oil system ? - I don't have drive information so far (expect that it is ABB servo amplifier), but I expect +-10V control in speed ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_mar _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
