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Backlash???? Loose Straps????

This feature was added early on as a major customer of Fadal requested it. Check in the SETP pages and you'll find a parameter that concerning ordered seqnence numbers.

Neal

Cancel your drill cycle at line N11.5. the Z move at N12 is telling the control to drill upwards and it can't do that.

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The "wild" leg doesn't matter in this machine. The vector drive supplys the three phase power for the spindle motor not the line input voltage. I typically put it on L3 as a habit but it can go on...

Simply use the SPRINT statement to out put the P1 P2 and P3 probed points. Don't make it complcated. You need a waiting program on the remote PC to capture the incoming data.

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It would seem that the monitor is faulty. You could try a different video card but that is reaching a bit.

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I would check the servo motor and/or DC resolver or AC encoder which ever you have. If it is just drifting down, it might be loose gibbs and straps. You need to id if it is being driven down by the...

Check your PMs.

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You may have a faulty lube tank switch, draw bar air valve switch, etc. Any air device can produce a bogus signal that results in this message. This will be a classic witch hunt. Good luck.

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It is possible to operate any machine by defeating the door interlocks. The question should be "Are you willing to accept the legal, medical, and emotional results of an operator error causing...

Macros use parenthesis () as mathmatical function ONLY and NOT to make comments. An apostrophe is used to separate a comment from commands. Brackets are also a mathmatical function but are rarely...

Verify that you have bled all of the air out of the lines. You may just have a pneumatic lock. Also verify that the actuating cylinder is freely operating. Make sure that the relay is functioning...

If it is "tilting" front to back then you need to ajust the straps not the gibbs. The Gibbs control the left to right motion. Your maintenance manual has the correct procedure to do this. Also the...

The "H" code can be anything you want it to be regradless of tool number. HOWEVER, the normal procedure is T1 H1; T2 H2; T21 H21 Etc. If you choose to use a different "H" code on a given tool due to...

You can use the mass modify function to change all tool length offsets either up or down in just a few key strokes to account for the variation in your zero part position.

Neal

You can DNC up 100 ft with no issue IF you have no noises being injected into the cable. Can you transfer files to and from the machine from the new location? If you can than either you have a low...

That machine is a Fadal VMC40. It was produced between 1982 to approximately 1985 or 86. Then the sheet metal was chaged to the white enclosed open top style.

Neal

If you have the M12 interface box, the input and output wire could be reversed.

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Remount the chuck so that the Square key is at the top when the index marks are in line. The hex keys on the outside circumferance are to adjust the circular run out of the chuck to the centerline...

Best advice is to LISTEN to the sounds of the machine. Ball screws should NOT be loud or rough sounding. Look at the ways for any scoring. Observe the over all appearance of the machine. Does it...

If the dynamic braking cause an unusually high current draw, it could cause the overload to fault. You might MEG out the spindle motor to be sure that the motor is no starting to have an issue. Also...

It maybe that the CA/CAM system is not properly connecting the arcs. If the control see a mismatch over .0001 or .0002 it may reject it. If this is the case set your CAD to the lowest tolerance...

When using the NC Fadal software for DNC, DO NOT check the error checking option as this is too sensitive and picks up minor clitches that mean nothing. Unless you have an absolute need for the...

I used to use SurfCam. You can improt a G code program as a wire frame and then analyze each entity individually.

Neal

Boy, that's a hard question. There were so many different monitors used. One has the pots on the left brace (viewed from the rear) and others had the pots on the PCB directly under the rear of the...

Coding the appropriate G10 code within the program would solve this issue quite easily.

Neal

I would agree that first suspect would be the monitor or its conntections.

Neal

This looks like a program vs offset vs zero position conflict.

Neal

Error #26 is an overload in jog mode. This could be a weak amplifier or motor. Perhaps there is some excess mechanical drag in gibbs, straps or ball screw.
Can you operate the machine if you turn...

The 32 MP control is the CNC88 control with a built in PC. Advantages are on board CAD/Cam (GibbsCam) system, internal DNC at 38,400 baud rate frominternal PC hard drive. Larger storage for part...