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fdm_guy,
Those appear to be [reasonably commodity] Fanuc DC servos - Perhaps Al can confirm, but the pulsecoder on that stack should be plain incremental, not FanucSerial (wrong vintage by my chart)...

Greets and happy holidays to all!

This may be one for Al:
I'm used to the taper-shaft or straight-shaft outputs on Fanuc servos (which means I rarely move over to the robot-arm world). However,...

Paul - 115Kbaud would be "workable" on the Kangaroo for things like a stylus drawing in sand, or an etch-a-sketch - you didn't really describe your application. Neither USB (anything) or PCI/onboard...

Greets -

Has anyone been using a WJ200 VFD with an external encoder in the Simple Positioning Mode? My understanding from the manual, is that the [SPD] logic input toggles the mode (velocity or...

Peter - I was not aware of that; might be worth keeping the serial pins accessible too, then. I knew there was some I2C/SPI stuff going on a while back, I didn't know anyone else was pursuing other...

Uli12us-

The servos in my FZ08 are also absolute (I was chatting with Peter in another thread about them) - Jon Elson has a Fanuc Serial -> Hall/Incremental converter board for about $150: Pico...

Peter - thanks for popping up.
I knew Jon had the commutation converter, I only recently found the "serial" version on his site. A good deal at the price. I did however, put the C1-8, the FZ, D0 and...

I'm hoping Al & Jon might have some good input here, and anyone else who might have insight.

I have some Fanuc AC aM6/3000 servos (A06B-0162-B076#7000) with red cap pulsecoders, the motor date is...

Hi all -
I have a Fanuc Alpha spindle motor (A06B-0871-B390#304N) which is a 15K rpm unit, 4 poles. I don't have all the nameplate info since it's still in the machine and partially obscured, but a...

Guhl - thanks for that link; I'm familiar with Heid desktop interpolators, but hadn't seen the individually boxed ones before. I'd be really surprised if Chiron modified the Fanuc servos for Heid...

Hi all - I recently acquired a [gutted] Chiron FZ08 vmc that reportedly had a Fanuc 21i control on it, which was removed by the original owner. It was expected that there were also likely Alpha amps...

Greets -
As a "Weekend project", I decided I'd pull out a couple of the older Allen Bradley Ultra 100 drives I've had sitting dormant for a while (1398-DDR-009) and possibly use them to replace the...

Luxornet - I don't know if you received a response to this or not, however the RS232 port on most CNC controls (Mitsu, Fanuc, Siemens - non-PC) is a serial port, not a parallel port. True, they both...

Niksa - perhaps it could really be a spindle error? Not necessarily the cutting drive, but the "spindle as a whole".

Is this also the only error, or is it just the "last displayed one". Some...

Hey guys - just thought I'd drop a shameless plug for the Tsugami Mercury lathe project I'm retrofitting from its original Fanuc 6T(a) control to EMC2 - if you're interested in some pictures, humor...

Gotis - this is a Contour Shuttle Express with Tormach's padprint on the housing cover. Grab the plugin for the Contour Shuttle noted above (from the Mach3 site) and DO NOT INSTALL THE CONTOUR...

Capt EOD - there is a forum set in the Mach tech pages that deals with the Shuttle, but basically it comes down to this:
1) don't install the drivers for the Shuttle that came with it. If you did,...