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No evidence of a damaged or failed board. Right now it sounds like power is not getting through your E-stop contactor, either because the contactor is not closing or because the contact points...

That is significant progress. Evidently drive and motors are okay, VM motor power is okay, but your E-stop contactor is not closing when you release the E-stop button.

Power for the E-stop...

It could be any number of things: blown servo drive; damaged servo motor; failure to release holding brake in servo motor; physically jammed head or screw; etc..

Power up, and without bothering to...

The arc at the end of the profile sounds like a classic cutter comp error.

Are you sure you remembered to cancel cutter comp (back to OFF, i.e. G40) as soon as you reached the end of the profile,...

If you get "411 full power w/o motion" on all three axes (i.e. on any axis you try to move) then you need to look at the servo drive. Either your are not putting DC bus power into the servo drive,...

Yes, I am a Centroid dealer. This sort of upgrade is best done on site. Where are you located?

It will be a little more expensive to upgrade an M60, because AT-format motherboards for the...

Unfortunately, detailed instructions are not likely to be forthcoming. Troubleshooting network connections typically involves a lot of experiment and observation (much of which you have probably...

In case you are still wondering, a year later: if it came off your starter or contactor, it is not a resistor but an arc suppressor (RC network). It goes across the coil (e.g. from A1 to A2). The...

Interesting. Assuming it is a analog potentiometer that reports the position of the vari-speed, then with some external electronics you could conceivably use it, plus the analog spindle speed output...

Hollow shaft encoders with a 10mm bore are going to be hard to find, but not impossible. Dynapar makes F18 encoders with that bore. You will have to call Ajax to find out whether they stock them.
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Dwayne Elrod should be able to supply ballscrews for you. See http://www.elrodmachine.com/CNC%20XY%20Ball%20Screws.htm.

He also has yokes, motor mounts, and other hardware you way want.

The spring force in the TT1 is a lot stronger than in the probe, so I expect the TT1 would not move at all.

It is possible that you would see a very slight error, because:
1) when you measure a...

You can indeed use your probe to set Z zero. As you note, that is the simple and sensible way to do it when you are already using the probe for X and Y.

You do need to measure the probe's height...

Which "ATC noise" error(s) are you getting?

9011 ATC CAR IN NOISE?
9019 ATC TOOL COUNTER NOISE?
9021 ATC TOOL COUNTER NOISE?
9027 ATC CAR OUT NOISE?

You can review recent error messages by...

All of the above: control dealer, retrofitter, service tech, trainer, programmer etc.. See www.cncsnw.com.

Unfortunately, "knowing a lot" in this business does not always add up to "knowing...

Regarding the Danaher encoders, be very careful inserting the wrench to tighten the collar, and don't forget the step of unclamping the disk. These encoders are easy to damage.

I am pretty sure that alignment using an oscilloscope is only necessary for commutation encoders on AC servo motors: not applicable here.



Not a problem. If you want to try to quiet it down,...

Make sure you have the flash card reader plugged in as the IDE primary master (not secondary master, not a slave drive). I just ran into this in a case where the customer plugged the CDROM drive...

With the motor off the machine, you could plug it into one of the other cables easily enough, just to confirm the problem is in the motor and not the external Z cable.

Cheapest solution is to just...

99% likely you are losing encoder feedback from the Z servo motor to the PC console.

Could be a failure in the motor itself; could be a loose connection or damaged cable between the motor and the...

utahnorton wrote:


This sounds a little fishy. Are you sure the flash drive and the XP hard drive can't conflict with each other (e.g. aren't both master drive on the same IDE controller)?
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Pretty sure from utahnorton's description this isn't really "dual boot". Instead he has Windows on one flash card, Linux/CNC10 on the other, and is swapping cards. Comparable to swapping hard...

Not exactly. In the bulk of the digitizing moves (moving Z down to measure a point) it moves steadily at the slow rate (Parameter 15) until it touches. Then it stops immediately (if P10 = 0) or...

What model M400 do you have?

Is it an original DC-drive M400 (gray console, 10" LCD, sealed keyboard flat in console face)?

A new-style DC-drive M400S (black console, 15" LCD, conventional or...

Shizzlemah wrote:

You need to obtain updated software from your dealer or local service tech. The earlier Linux Intercon releases, being ports of the DOS version, did still have the 8-character...

As Ajaxcnc notes, you need to upgrade to current Linux-based software in order to have longer filenames and use of USB flash drives. You would also get lots of other things that have been added and...

It sounds like your X limit switch is already tripped, or a wire has come loose.

If you ask the control to home, and the home switch already appears tripped, then the control goes immediately to...

Spindle brake control is a feature of the PLC programming, and therefore can vary from one control to another.

Typical recent practice has been to use the Aux3 key on the hand pendant to control...

No.

The keyboard shortcuts are only available when using keyboard control with no jog panel installed (i.e. the "Console Type" selection on the Control Configuration screen is "Keyboard"). You...

Tazzer wrote:


No, that is not possible.

If you need many of the keyboard shortcuts, you might be able to add a programmable keypad (one that lets you program its keys to generate whatever key...