First off Happy Thanksgiving to all of my EMC/linuxCNC friends. I am
kinda new around here with EMC and I recently bought a used Cincinatti
Arrow 500 VMC for my shop. Initially the hope was to be able to fix the
original control and get it running. UNFORTUNATELY after several thousand
dollars w
On 22 November 2012 16:13, Pete Matos wrote:
> use the original relays
> that appear to be in good shape to switch the 110v pneumatics for the
> toolchanger and power drawbar on and off as needed.
An alternative might be to swap just the solenoids on the valves and
control with 24V direct from a
Andy,
funny you mention the 24v supply. The machine came with one and I am
trying to determine if it is usable now with my intentions to run entirely
on single phase. The solenoids that are in the machine are actually quite
nice and 110v control voltage is as far away as the wall around here so
On Thursday 22 November 2012 12:10:26 Pete Matos did opine:
>First off Happy Thanksgiving to all of my EMC/linuxCNC friends. I am
> kinda new around here with EMC and I recently bought a used Cincinatti
> Arrow 500 VMC for my shop. Initially the hope was to be able to fix the
> original contr
Gene,
Hey man nice to meetya! I guess I can post the pics to my photobucket
account and link them here but that is kinda a pain. Perhaps I should make
a photobucket folder for all the Cincinatti arrow pics. HMMM something to
consider. Peace
Pete
On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 12:14 PM, Gene Hes
On Thursday 22 November 2012 12:39:55 Pete Matos did opine:
> Gene,
> Hey man nice to meetya! I guess I can post the pics to my
> photobucket account and link them here but that is kinda a pain.
> Perhaps I should make a photobucket folder for all the Cincinatti arrow
> pics. HMMM something
On Thu, 2012-11-22 at 12:12 -0500, Pete Matos wrote:
You might want to browse this:
http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl
search for mazak and you will get all sorts of hits.
also:
http://webpages.charter.net/bengvall/emc/emcconversion.html
I have no idea what the spindle drive is like on
Gene and Dave,
I have been looking all over for the information I need to do this. I
guess my plan is to take it one step at a time and one circuit at a time
and hope for a good result. Again the initial hope here is to get the
basic machine working and then worry about getting fancy with the
Dayum I just looked at this video of a pendant that apparently works on
linuxCNC...NICE!! here is a linkpeace
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1B_YsfI89s&feature=related
Pete
On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 1:20 PM, Pete Matos wrote:
> Gene and Dave,
> I have been looking all over for the i
