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Update - Problem seems to be resolved. - 2 Separate issues

The "drive" I was referring to was the Z axis stepper drive. Both machines are the same age. The z axis failed on one a week ago and the...

I have two 770 Tormach machines. They are about ten years old but up until 2 years ago had limited use. I have been running them flawlessly for two years on Mach 3. I decided to upgrade to the...

I have a new slant pro. I have my students manually program as well as use fusion 360. In fusion, with the front tooling, it shows everything in the positive direction in terms of the x axis. When I...

I currently have two tormach 770 machines. My students manually program g code and use Prolight software to verify the program prior to running.

The school just purchased a new tormach slant...

I teach CNC at the high school level. All of my students learn Manual G code by programming off line and running on a machine once the code has proven to work. I have a Prolight mill and the CNC base...

I am hoping someone can help me. I was setting up a students project yesterday, facing the front of the billet to zet the Z offset. I was running it manually with a M04 S500 code in the MDI screen. ...

My students manually program G codes. I have the senior grades use G41 and G42 to offset the cutter. The normal line of code would read

G41 Y25 D1 F400 (CUTTER 6 MM DIA)
G01 X50 F400

The...

I am only worried about the axis motors,

I have a techno Isel servo gantry machine. Up to this point I have been only cutting wood and plastic. Is it ok to cut aluminum or would it put too much pressure on the motors? The machine seems...

Update; I obtained a new motor complete with an encoder, directly from Techno, and it solved all of my problems.
To anyone who is thinking about buying a Techno machine I would highly recommend it,...

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Intermitted communication failure
I am running mach 3 on a redcam (stepper) gantry cnc. I have been struggling for some time now and although I bought the machine direct from redcam they are of...

I enabled the index and it came back stating that the index could not be found. I then removed the motor and used compressed air to clean the encoder. When I reassembled it and fired it up it took...

Hi Eric, I have been very happy with techno service. My OCD got the best of me this weekend and I just assumed that you guys were off. I will continue to debug on tuesday.

It does appear to build...

When I set up the scaling I was not able to find the label on the machine and as such I used a Vernier and employed a trial and error method to determine the scaling number. Is this a correct method...

I just converted it from the old dos based system to the new system. I guess I could fire up the old machine and take a look at the parameters. How do you determine the correct setting for...

Sweet!!

I just installed the software a couple of days ago and was a little disappointed that is seemed to be missing key features; I was elated when I found this post and read that you will be...

CNC drift error

I just installed a new computer, the new card and the techno software on my 1996 servo driven techno Isel gantry CNC. I set all the scaling parameters and the machine is very...

Here is a sample screen shot of the code.

I have been working on setting up an older techno isel machine for the past few months. It is a mid 90’s machine and as such it has a very old dos program to run it. I plan to upgrade the box and the...

I have been playing around with the encoder trying to get it going without having to buy a new one. I put it all back together and must have done something wrong. When I plugged it back in the...

My electrical or electronic experience is limited. Is the wiring the same on the like encoders. On my current one I have about seven wires coming out of it. Is this typical or will I need to change...

I got it off, there is a small chip in the glass on one part of the encoder. I would suspect this is the root cause of my failure mode.

You were right, hooked up a 12v supply today and the motor runs smooth as silk.

When I got the machine 2 wires, small black and a small red were disconnected from the pins. I picked up some new...

Hey Guys, I am working on getting an older Techno Isel CNC machine up and running. It seems that I have one bad motor. The motor is smooth when I rotate it by hand but under power it clunks as if it...

I found the problem. There was a signal wire off on the panel on the inside of the frequency drive box.

That said, I have a new issue. The Z axis and X axis run smooth but the Y axis os jerky. I...

Nothing moves, if I try to jog it tells me that there is no controller power. This is not the case as the controller in fact is powered up. I hooked up all the limit switches and they were...

I am in the process of setting up a Techno Isel machine. It is running dos. I have all power hooked up and the program seems to be running. I can turn the spindle on but every time I go to move an...

Does that mean I keep the existing computer, running dos, hooked up to my cnc and I send the files to the dos box via a windows machine via a dos box. Or do you mean that I should remove the dos...

I have 2 wires that have come out of the serial connector on my servo motor. I want to put them back in but I am not sure how the pin comes out and I did not want to damage it. Does anyone know how...