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it went out because it was too far away from the material and lost defined voltage reading in THC , you have to figure out why it's too high, check Gcode perhaps?

Thank you everyone for the help, your replies have certainly helped me finish this mill up and even though It has now passed 3 years since the build, thanks to your help the machine has gone from...

I am working with him on this machine and basically this is the setup we tried as well as pulling -24V into common instead of +24V

Here's how they are in a working machine

I'd suggest you to upgrade it to modern controller like Acorn and maybe Clearpath servos

Me too if available please, [email protected]

Hello again, thank you for the information, I have gotten to this part and ripped everything I think isn't required, now im struggling with figuring out from the old relays whats common, whats coil...

Thanks for the info cncsnw,

since im not 100% sure what you mean, lets see ... Acorn comes with external board that contains a few relays, is that what you call PLC? Now, only concern about that...

Hi cncsnw,

yes it is indeed, and the machine is on Canadian industrial site that has 600V, it still works, the reason for the owner to decide to upgrade it is because the CRT was shot, but you...

Thanks for the reply Dickeybird,

yeah as I mentioned, the motors will be upgraded to nema 34 size Clearpath servos that gonna come with integrated drivers and 2 extra power supplies, those should...

hey guys,

I'm helping out a friend that has a manual machine shop with this 30 years old CNC mill that sits there unused for since he has bought the shop. The reason behind it being unused is...

Hey any update on this? I have ordered Acord CNC controller board for this and If i can get the spindle to run (I have no idea yet how) with it, then I'll be ordering Clearpath Nema 34 size servos...

Hey guys I'm working on my friends's VC3600 mill . CRT driver board inside Crusader M series is toast. I found it had a video feed via 4 cables from PCB in the cabinet in a single 5 pin connector....

Same question here, I'm working on same machine . Have you had any progress with your project?

I have found this video when guy is talking about it failing on Fords, but he says its a brushless DC motor and that 6 pin connector is encoder interface, while 3 pin connector is CANbus ... with...

DaMeat , have you looked at the pictures? this is about half foot in size, and it has it's own drive in it already. I tried touching 12V to the terminal but nothing happened .

Hi, yeah those 3 pins look weird because i broke the plastic around it when i tried connecting croc clips on it haha, it appears as those 3 pins go to a small coil and than to that white ribbon cable...

Hi Skrubol, I have re uploded the pics now onto external host...

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Hey guys , I'm new to this forum and I got few cnc projects on the go, but I need your help. I recently had to replace my electric rack and pinion on my 2013 Ford Interceptor (New Taurus) due to...