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Well how old is the machine in question? How many cutting hours?

Being into racing, I have to rebuild my tranny and engine (1000 hp) every year, because I push them to the limit and get as much...

Damn that *almost* sounds like a vacation... CNC's and the Caribbean. Sounds nice.

Thanks for the reply OU,

I do have my indexer hooked up as you have described. Maybe I'm just missing something.

I'm trying to sort of "sync" the rotary movement, and an X-Axis movement to...

Does anyone have a Haas VF with an HRT indexer using the M21 (user defined). My machine is not wired up to the M21 function which I need for a certain application to do some time feeding/indexing to...

This has been going since I first re-initialized the machine. I've checked all the cables, even swapped them all to see if the problem showed up somewhere else as a result of a bad cable... nothing...

Thanks for your help guys. I've pretty much accepted that I'll have to shell out some cash to Mitsubishi at some point... Now i'm just kind of waiting till i'm comfortable spending it given then...

Supra... the stuff you have typed sounds like what had going through my head during the early points of my jump into manufacturing. All I can say now from experience.... bite your tongue, and keep...

Man.... I would LOVE that job... too bad I'm in ohio I'd be all over it!

Thanks for the help guys! Also, this isn't a repeat job... its more off an asskissing job making some custom parts for a purchasing guy's chopper ;).

Anyone have any experience with this stuff? I'm told its 36-40 rockwell. I have to mill 48 .260 wide slots about an inch and a half long in this stuff. The stock is .225 thick. I'll definitely be...

No comments? Well I am going to put a new EEPROM in to see if that will solve this issue. Any help would be appreciated.

Tonight I was messing around with my little machine, a dynamite 4400M, FR-SFJ-2-3.7k-t spindle drive. I was checking the params in the drive and had to go answer the phone and walked away. When i...

I just wanted to throw this little update into this thread, may or may not be of any help to you. Tonight I was messing around with my little machine, SFJ 3.7k spindle drive. I was checking the...

I have the same problem, Exact problem almost as you with an SFJ 3.7k drive.... no solution found yet but I haven't send the drive in yet... I'd like to try a different sf-tl card. Good luck and If...

Thanks for the follow up leelund. I've already been that route with no success. I'm really scratching my head over this one. Supply voltage is 220, but the alarm persists. I guess i'll have to talk...

No..i haven't called mitsu yet, but probably will today.

As far as i know it was in working order, but the new machines came in and it was much more productive to use the new machines, and another...

Thanks for the info on the rs232 cable Caprirs

I've checked the voltage and its 226 going into the machine, and the same going into the drive where you said to check... so I haven't seen any...

The spindle drive is a Mitsubishi FR-SFJ-2-3.7k-t

Ok, so here's an update...I'm still in need of some help.

Basically I Isolated the spindle drive and took it out of the equation. unhooked the communication cable going from the axis drive to the...

Also, the RS-232 cable .... is it a DTE or a DCE?

Wow, well ok. This is been a definite learning experience for me. And thanks for your advise to fix Caprirs, I'll use your input when I get to that point again for sure!.

However I have some new,...

Alright well here's an update. I somehow stumbled upon this. I pretty much just noticed that the Spindle drive wasn't doing anything whatsoever, and the Axis drives were in a state of standby... so I...

Ok.... well here's a bit more insight for you guys. This is the second time I have re-initialized the machine. My uncle, who has worked in machine tool repair for years, and has a fair amount of...

Thanks Al,

And yes, this is a 4400M. It has the Mitsubishi Meldas M3 control instead of the dyna language previously used on earlier models.

Thanks Leelund!

Hey Al,

I have the ladder diagrams in the back of the maintenance manual and it shows conditions for a blinking alarm light, however I'm not sure how to look up on this control? :withstupi you'll...

This machine was in working order a few years back. However, a few new machines came in the door and this got shoved in a corner. Kinda of making it my little project to get it in running order again...

Hey guys, I have an mid 90's Dyna Mite Machine that has a Mitsubishi Meldas M3 control. I have all the parameters set in the machine as it was as new. But It seems I'm not getting any communication...

Hey guys, Not sure if this is the right forum or not since its mostly mazak. I have an mid 90's Dyna Mite Machine that has a Mitsubishi Meldas M3 control. I have all the parameters set in the machine...

Thanks for your input Lee. I wanted to get everyone's take on the this thing here because i've already replaced the spindle controller twice in this machine over the last five years. It works for a...