DYNA EM3116 Mill Questions
I have a DYNA EM3116 Knee Mill that was donated to my high school. It is in great shape and I have seemed to get most everything figured out right up to getting the program I wrote to run. It starts and then it errors out with a E458 Soft Limits reached in positive direction. How to I view and edit my soft limits? Thanks in Advance!
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Rather than change your soft limits. Try moving your part in the coordinate system in the negative direction of the faulting axis. The fact that you have gotten this far is impressive enough.
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Fastest1
Rather than change your soft limits. Try moving your part in the coordinate system in the negative direction of the faulting axis. The fact that you have gotten this far is impressive enough.
Thanks, I got it figured out, I was looking in the wrong manual once I looked at the right one I figured out it was faulting on the z positive axis. My next problem is I cannot get the spindle to start up either manually or in the program. I am open to suggestions.
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Thank you! It was a bonehead move on my part. The spindle has a separate forward/off/reverse switch up by the head, something I was not used to on past machines I have worked on. We have it up and running and drilled some holes. Just some programming glitches to work on and we will be up and running. Thanks again!
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Hi, I recently acquired a Dyna EM-3116 mill. In checking out the spindle operation, I noticed that mine has old fashioned rpm control via a crank up on the mill head. The power to the motor, however, then is not connected through the speed control circuitry. It simply heads up to the motor through a "contactor" which you will see in the lower right side of your blue cabinet. The contactor is electrically controlled, on mine, by a 120 volt wire to pins 7 & 8 on the J15 bank of relay connectors (see page 32 of your EM-3116 Operation & Reference Manual). I presume this power enable to the motor contactor is fired up through a G-code motor-on command. Make sure your power switch is on and that you are in gear. Good Luck. Dyna Mechtronics said they could sell me a set of manuals for $140USD but I was able to purchase them from a fellow machine owner near Seattle.
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Do not waste time on any Dyna controllers. If you have one fine. Stick with the Acorn.
I just ordered one myself. Should be here Wed or Thurs.
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Glad you got your mill up and running. You will need that forward/reverse switch because the speed change gear works like the slow backgear on a lathe (turns backwards) so you will need to switch to reverse when using that slow range. By the way, I am looking for the old Dyna Mech computer control. When I bought my mill, it was missing. The mill, however, did have the rest of the controls and a pendant. Having no 3-phase, I had to rewire things so I'm operating on single phase 220v. As I mentioned, the motor came up OK through a solid state phase converter - 7.5hp motor, cat40 taper. For a thousand bucks, the old piece of iron looked promising. Am now working on bringing up the servos. The breaker to the servo power supply is popping when I press the power-on on the pendant. Of course there is no computer controller to power on (could be the source of the problem or some real issue with the power supply which is somewhat hard to get at to take off from the big blue box and seriously look at and test. Can't seem to find Dyna computer controller so am thinking of going with a Centroid All-in-one or Acorn - depending if I decide to or have to change out the servo's. Any and all input is welcome...
Those machines look pretty much like mine. Looks like a 4V size machine from the pictures I found. What servos does that machine have? If you need a hand, I'm local.
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Anyone had monitor issues on their Dyna Controller? I believe the monitor went out. We shut it down for the weekend, went to fire it back up and nothing on the monitor.