That's the thing i hate about fanuc. Everything is proprietary. The io modules we use on our machines give standard sinking and sourcing io but unless you can find a circuit in the ladder can activate, you need ladder 3 software to make your own.
On the flip side, their control has goto in their logic, which i miss in lcnc 😅 Phil T. The Feral Engineer Check out my LinuxCNC tutorials, machine builds and other antics at www.youtube.com/c/theferalengineer Help support my channel efforts and coffee addiction: www.patreon.com/theferalengineer On Fri, Jul 16, 2021, 1:22 PM Andrew <pkm...@gmail.com> wrote: > пт, 16 лип. 2021 о 19:14 Todd Zuercher <to...@pgrahamdunn.com> пише: > > > I need to voice some frustration. So pardon the OT post > > > > Fanuc is making me pull my hair out. > > > > I also had a kind of disappointment with Fanuc recently. > I was asked to help install an automated clamping fixture to a new machine > with a Fanuc controller. The fixture has a controlled actuator to adjust > for the part depth, and also has an analog pressure sensor. So it's > necessary to pass the part size to the fixture from the CNC program. I was > thinking of a PLC with Modbus output for the stepper actuator and analog > input. But it's kind of impossible to connect any PLC to a Fanuc > controller! They have a proprietary I/O link interface only. OK, we > contacted Fanuc for advice. And their advice was pretty short: contact our > certified services only. So if you ever bought a CNC machine with a Fanuc > controller - you're in slavery. Of course there are solutions but they cost > a lot. And the service costs a lot too. > > Another story. > I know an owner of a pretty complicated CNC machine with a Siemens > controller, 20+ years old. The controller was not functional. The guy could > not repair it for a very long time. No service wanted to deal with it! So > he contacted the machine manufacturer. They said no problem, we can supply > a brand new controller cabinet for the machine. Priced at $ 200K... oops! > So he spent a lot of time and money until he found some guy who was able to > repair the controller. > > So... beware those brand CNC controllers and interfaces. > > Just my 2 cents, anyways. > > _______________________________________________ > 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
