Help! Dead CNC serial port when receiving!
I'm in a jam, for the last week I've been trouble shooting my Fanuc om linking to my PC so, I finally got fed up and bought a rs232 tester to check the cable/connecters and its fine. The controller will send out accurately to my PC but It absolutely will not receive. The tester shows data making it to the serial port on the controller, but the "ZST" keeps flashing.. nothing shows up. Again, I can send to my PC, but I cant send to my CNC, so my questions are....
Can somebody tell me whats wrong, what do I do to fix it, and how much will it cost. What are my options? Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks for the info guys!
yeah, The cycle start light does come on.. but theres no movement. like mentioned previously, I am new to this and the program I loaded might be tad bit long for my first program to start with "basic profiling on a rectangle, but has alot of step downs for multiple passes".
When I brought home the machine, I actually ran one of the programs still in memory from the previous owner and it did worked "set off the stroke limit alarm" but I did get some movement. Being a nub I cleared them to free up the memory and now wish I had not, because it would of helped trouble shoot this. When I first loaded the code, it did give me a unreadable g-code alarm, in which I reset, changed an early program line which looked odd and tried to rerun it. No alarm this time, but no movement either. The cycle start light does stay illuminated though if this is a helpful clue.
In the mean time, I'm going to try recreate a part to post with just one pass and hopefully I might have better luck. Am I correct to assume that my procedure was correct then? "auto mode, dry/or test run, then cycle start?