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No problem, in fact, I can add more detail... BTW this is for an Excel 510, FANUC 0-MB, referring to ladder ROM E510-06G.

One of the key symptoms was the Feed Hold light being on, and I found the...

Sorry to waste your time, I found that I had entered 1,000 instead of 10,000 for the ATC timeout value, so the logic thought it failed after one second. I fixed this and everything works fine now......

I edited this message after checking something; I may have D0305 set incorrectly and this would certainly cause a problem...

What should the main ATC timeout be?

You can stop here if you...

Ok, I did a little more investigation on this problem. First off, the limit switches on the cylinder are magnetic, and I can't see the indicator lights on them. I can, however, see them operate on...

Thanks for the explanation. I wasn't sure how this could happen since I set according to factory parameters.
Then I took another look at the hard copy that I hand-entered from, and I had missed the...

I have addressed all of the problems with this gift machine except an ATC that won't cycle from within a program...

Apparently this machine uses the PMC to control the ATC. I think this because...

Thanks for everyone's input, I can now present the resolution.

I have been scouring the Fanuc manual and found parameter 45.7, HSIF.
It was set to zero; M/S/T/B code precessing shall be a normal...

I haven't had much time to work on this machine, but I do have some new interesting info...

I wrote a short program to do a couple of moves, start the spindle, and do a couple more moves.
When I...

Thanks for the quick replies...

A good catch indeed, however, that parameter is already set to "not checked." (maybe I will flip the bit and see what happens...)

The manual I have is for a...

First of all, I have been reading MANY posts on this forum that have helped me a lot; THANKS!

A friend gave me an Excel 510 with Fanuc 0m control, that of course, had dead memory batteries. I...