Tried to buy a Viper 200 to replace one of mine that died. Web site seems to be defunct. Any ideas?
irmachinist
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Tried to buy a Viper 200 to replace one of mine that died. Web site seems to be defunct. Any ideas?
irmachinist
Thank you very much!! Just now getting back to this project!
I bought a combo board from Bob years ago and now cant find my manual. Does anyone have one?
Thanks
i_r_machinist
I have not. I will look up how to do such and get back to you.
Thanks
i_r_
My machine, except the computer, has been bullitproof for several years. My computer died and I had it seviced. The guru said it was a memory error and nothing had changed in my programs. When I...
I don't guess I actually did a control upgrade, but rather an Advantech Motherboard upgrade from EMI with disc on module. The floppy emulator should work great, if I can get all of them speaking the...
I have two Ezpaths and one Eztrak that we have done the control upgrade on and installed the DOMs on. After each of these I get the "wrong Dos version" when trying to transfer a file. I've put in two...
I've thought of opening the tower and seeing if some pins are not lining up. I uninstalled and re-installed mach 3, nothing. Z is fine, just x and y. It is a puzzle. Like I say, I got this thing from...
Well, I've been threw two towers on the same Viper drives and Bob Campbell BOB. The last tower I got I plugged it in, loaded Mach3 and was running. The current tower had some kind of memory error and...
Joe,
Thanks for the offer, but May 16th we will be in Hico for the Texas State steak cookoff and festival. If you are in the neighborhood it's a great time and great food. It's about an hour...
This is a reply I got from the guys at Lava.
Unfortunately Microsoft prevents modifying IO resources for all add-in PCI cards, and has done so since Windows 2000.
I've attached an slightly more...
Update,
My 12 year old dell dimension 4550 with windows 7 will connect to the plasma cutter in a heartbeat. It has a built in rs232 card. I've heard thru back channels that plasmacam version 3.11 is...
Thanks for the offer Joe, but its a lonnnng way from Franklin, KY, to here in North central Texas! 120 miles southwest of Dallas. From what I have read, it is a crap shoot with 3.11 and windows 7....
Took the computer to a professional. He installed an update to windows and connected the machine to a printer with a rs232 port. Printer connected immediatle and printed some stuff off. Brought...
Had a good long talk with John Derby this evening. Very interesting guy and very friendly. We couldn't find a fix for the problem. Went through all the fields and settings. A friend had another Lava...
Here is a copy of posts on the plasmacam owners help forum.
I had a new computer with windows 7 built for my table. I had the lava 5v Parallel PCI/LP port installed. When I try to initialize my...
What part of central Texas. I'm in Dublin.
i_r_machinist
I don't guess I did too bad. Same driven gear, one tooth off on the drive gear, and an inch longer on the centerlines between shafts.
Thanks for the replies.
i_r_
Pretty smooth gantry motion in that video. Where did you buy the rails and what are they? Great job on the photo documentation. I may borrow a few ideas. I would be fabing my frame this morning, but...
That's strange. I tried to reply this morning and I got a"This thread is locked" message. I guess the powers that be had a change of mind. I copied what I had written into a side note, so here that...
I'm drawing my copy of Dave Nelson's table in SolidWorks. I'm currently stumped on the pulleys,belt pitch, and width. I read all the posts but cannot glean this info. I've looked in the SDP ctalog...
I am designing a 5'x10' plasma table that I hope to finish this summer. I've seen several builds here that use the 1/2" square, 20 pitch, 20 degree pa rails. I would like to use a 3/4" square, 16...
Dave,
I've been in the machining trade for over 30 years, am not easily impressed.
That is one outstanding example of craftsmanship.
Exceptional job!
i_r_machinist
30 years cnc programming and machining experience. SolidWorks, PlasmaCam, Gibbscam experience. 4 axis Mach 3 cnc mill retrofit under my belt. Going to build a 4 axis plasma table/router this year. If...
Electro-Mechanical Integrators, Inc.
sorry for the late reply. been on vacation.
i_r_
AA,
Have you already bought the mach3? If not, take a good hard look at EMC2. It can do some things that mach3 can't. Look on you tube.
good luck
i_r_
Went with the EMI full package. Works great.
thanks
i_r_
Two nights ago I got the bmdc error when booting the machine. It was a "error while reading c:drive".
I figured I would make a backup copy of the ezpath at work and write over the corrupted file on...
I need to back up the software on a ezpath 1. How do I do this?
thanks
i_r_machinist
Thanks for dumbass proofing your drives Larry.
Replaced 15 amp fuse and I'm back in the saddle.
have fun
i_r_