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Recently my spindle wont come on when its cold and has a red led going on on one of the boards in the drive, its a hardinge superslant gn6tc controls, The led that comes on is labeled on the board...

I agree with ZZZZ. I've had that happen to mine after pulling the servos.
If that doesn't work watch the position on the readout, if the motor is turning and no movement recorded on the read out...

I was just getting ready to post a thread and saw this one very similar to mine. I hope it's o.k. to post this here.
That sounds exactly like the same issue i'm having with my superslant with 6tc.
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I'm considering buying a benchman mx but the guy that has it doesn't have the pci interface card. I don't know much about the card or what makes it so special but after speaking with intelitek they...

That's where mine is right now, i wish i had found them sooner. Hopefully i'll be back and running shortly. They seem like really good people to work with.

I just spent the last hour or 2 reading the instruction manual for the wj200,
It does look much easier than i expected and fairly straight forward, it looks like the I/O signals can be set to either...

I know what you mean, i'm getting repair quotes from 650 to 1250.
At that price it's a no brainer, get a new one. I did find the pack for $85 new,(overseas and 2 weeks away, i cant afford the time...

I'm having issues with my saftronics drive. It was working fine one day then i turned it on the next morning and the drive won't power on. No display, the machine comes out of e-stop and works fine...

Hi,

My saftronics drive went out(milltronics partner 1) and i need a new one or adivice on repairing this one. It's a cimr-pcd23p7 yaskawa (saftronics) 3 ph, 200-230v, 5hp 400 hz 6.7kva 17.5 A. I...

I've got them saved, sent them to my pc through the 232 port and burnt the files to disc.
Fortunately when i got the machine it had a floppy in the drive with the paramters already saved to it. I...

Thanks for the info Marty. That's where i think i'll have problems is with DOS and the bios. Would it be possible to install a hard drive and use it just for storage? Keep the simm card as is. I...

What I'm guessing is that they might have built the machine with the option of a tool changer so they put the brake in, if you were buying it new and wanted the ATC option they would have installed...

That's great! I wouldn't wish that nightmare on my worst enemy. The first time i replaced them in mine there was a small piece of debris that got in there even though i had my work area spotless, so...

Thanks for the reply, It does show on the screen to "hit any key to dissable auto boot" or something similar. Then it stays in DOS. I'll have to mess with it a bit more once i get cought up again. I...

What HP spindle do you have? I have the #rs and some of the bearings for the 7.5 hp. There's a pair of Fafnir bearings at the bottom which are pretty spendy, milltronics wanted 800 bucks for the pair...

It turns out the card i have has 2 rs232 drivers on it, i was able to move the plug to another unused portion of the card and go into the parameters and set the primary rs232 to com 2 instead of 1...

It sounds a bit beyond my skills, i was wondering how you got the cen 5 software off of the simmdisks but it would probably be greek to me. Were you able to find a new motherboard that didn't need a...

That's great, i've had several failures recently, and just getting tired of the down time. I may need a new motherboard if my current fix doesn't work. Where did you find yours? I assumed they would...

they said it was the whole thing updating it to a cen 6. I asked if it replaced the acroloops and they said yes. How long ago did you upgrade yours? Maybe they're using different components now?

I'm considering upgrading my cen 5 to 6. Milltronics quoted a price of $2100
They want the card cage sent in and they replace everything.
He said it would be a "single card" and replaces the...

it also interfaces with the floppy drive but i don't use that anyway, so if it doesn't work with the floppy i guess that's o.k.

All of the connectors plug into the board and don't use either the...

It's centurion 5, it doesn't have enough memory to store very large files at all so i have to drip feed everything, some programs are 300,000 lines plus. I tried a new cable but still no luck. I...

Al, thanks again for your help on that acroloop, i do have another issue, just thought i'd pick your brain and everyone elses for a second. When i dnc the x/on x/off doesn't seem to be working....

I have all of the full doc's for ours. It was tapped for 440 when we got it and no-one told us that. So when we hooked it up it blew the power supply in the spindle drive. Ours is an 84 but i bet it...

Luck deffinitely played a part in it but without your input i wouldn't have known where to start.
Thanks!

Hey Al,

You defintely deserve the title THE MAN!!!!! You are THE MAN!!!
I just replaced it and IT WORKS!!!!!!! I'M BACK IN BUSINESS.
i'm so happy i think i'm going to cry, i owe you one! I...

I found them locally so MAYBE I'll be back up and running tomorrow. I'll run down there tomorrow and give it a shot. As long as I'm re-soldering might as well put in a socket good idea. I'll let you...

Awesome! It's soldered unforunately, as long i take my time i should be able to replace it, it's worth a shot anyway.
I doubt there's any way to test it without removing it first?
I found some on...

I found the first chip it goes to is this one, Does this look like the right one?
Thanks a ton for your time and help!

the other 2 axis cards don't have that plug, the x for some reason also controls the keyboard. At least when i left that plug unplugged it threw an error saying no keyboard. So it must at least be...