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Joe,

Happy to help. We fully support this machine 7 days a week.
From the picture, you don't have the main computer (it's a windows PC) and probably not the PCI Card. If you do have these...

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Congrats on the great deal!

We sell the pci card for 650 and fully support your machine 7 days a week. The team at Armor CNC were electrical and mechanical engineers at Techno before the name was...

Unfortunately, you're right, there's no control box there, I see the ends of the motor power cables.
I'd suggest you use a warp9 ess board with the gecko drives and a decent toroidal power supply...

Most often, with schools, we see they retired the computer and lost the control card that was in it. The main control box is usually there because there's no easy way to remove/lose it without...

The motors are 48v DC brushed servos with 1k line ABZ incremental 5v encoders. The gecko 320s will work with them fine. You can even reuse the toroidal transformer in the control box to power the...

A USB to serial adapter will work because the machine already has a cnc controller in it that you're connecting to. It isn't necessarily a great one though.

Those machines were really lousy as far as circuitry and software, we didn't give them much love like the servo stuff. That being said, you can run the software for that hardware in modern windows....

I never said particle board and I don't suggest it b/c it won't last long with repeated fastening to it. OSB is going to hold up better, plywood might work well too. Regardless of what you use,...

I wouldn't try to make t-slots in the wood. they won't hold well.

Either bolt down a sheet of OSB or flat plywood and sink the hardware (I like M6 flat head screws for this) deep into the wood so...

That's a lot of travel, but it can be done. So long as the motor and slide won't hit anything, and the machine is bolted down so it can't rock, you should be fine. We have the slides if you want to...

Which axis do you want to make longer? It's trivial to put in a longer y axis (front to back). Changing the gantry is more work than it's worth.
Contact us if you wish. Armor CNC.

Regards
Eric

I'll try to get to all your questions, if I miss any, re-ask or email me directly.

I wrote a cutter-comp plugin for the techno software long ago on my own time, it was never distributed with the...

It depends on which inputs you're talking about. Home inputs are npn, the others are pnp.

5 or more axes or spindle encoder, you'd need to use a different controller to get those features. The...

If you have the PCI card (not the ISA card), then the machine as is can run on windows 10, likely already has spindle speed control, and you can easily add a 4th axis without changing the controller....

What are you looking to accomplish?

The other engineer here at Armor designed that board - we can help.

Eric

Shopworks07,

We have those motors if you can't find them elsewhere. Let me know.
Also,fyi,242 and 243 are not necessarily interchangeable, be careful with what you do, let me know if you need...

Eric,

This is a gantry 027 or 130 or similar, the number varies based on the working size of the machine.
Were you able to get a hold of the pc/control card?

Regards,
Eric

Apply standard troubleshooting practice.
You have 1 working axis and 2 not working axes. All otherwise identical in pitch/steps, right?
Swap things around... amps, motors, wiring, etc. Keep close...

While we at Armor CNC don't believe that steppers are adequate for a CNC machine for many many reasons, I can still help and let you know that peak torque on those motors is 200 oz-in continuous,...

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The newer versions of the software have this ability. Contact us at Armor CNC - contact page - to discuss.
Your CAM software has to put out the proper G41/42/43 commands to take advantage...

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I didn't see a message. How did you send it?

Spindle is not for the solenoid. That's for spindle speed control. You don't have the board for toolchanger sensors/solenoid control. You...

Otto,

We can help with this. We specialize in the original USA made Techno equipment.

There is a dedicated extra control board for the toolchangers on Techno machines (we have stock), and can...

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Running mach3 on the machine with geckos would mean a gut job on the electronics and motors.

In my opinion, replacing servos with steppers is a huge step down in quality and reliability...

Those are steppers.

No welding, unless someone messed with it afterwards. Only bolted, and all metric bolts, keep that in mind.

Each extrusion piece will be less than 20#

Eric

Match the red jumpers.

Pull the white jumper out.

The different numbers on the chips are not a problem.

Eric

It's a library that allows the user to implement the functionality and control of the machine in a custom piece of software.

Jim,

I'm not sure if you are the same James Dean that we have worked with in the past (North Carolina or Rhode Island, we have 2 customers with your name), but if not, you should know that here...

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