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I just purchased a new to me 2000 Haas VF2. The top serial port is physically missing. I initially tried to upload programs through the second serial port but had no luck communicating and then...

Hi Rofuth, the abnormal program termination (according to Anilam) is more of a corrupted BIOS problem over anything else. I am currently waiting for my board to come back from Anilam. I have...

Tim, that would be great! The machine will run a couple of programs that were still in memory when I got the machine with no problems, but when I write a program it gets to some arbitrary spot and...

Hi, I just bought a Eagle 400 CNC with the Anilam 1100m on it. It seems like a great machine but I just can't seem to get my posting right from Mastercam 8 (which has a built in post for the 1100m)....

Hi Tim, I just bought a Eagle 400 (power knee jobby) with the Anilam 1100m on it. It seems like a great machine but I just can't get my posting right from Mastercam 8 (which has a built in post for...

Took me about a year to fix it and I haven't been back on CNC until now but figured I owed you a reply as you were spot on with your diagnosis!

Maxvic

Decel switch wiring was the problem - Thanks Ahn!

Hi, I have an Eagle mill with an Anilam 1100m controller on it and the motion will sometimes stop mid program. The display will say "running" but it just hangs on one line of code, I can restart...

I just picked up a Bridgeport Series 2 Interact 4 and it has a Heidenhain TNC 150 controller on it. Is there any way to program in Mastercam and then post to machine? It has a 232 port but it says...

Hi, I just bought an Acra Fel 1740 Enc lathe with an Anilam 4200t controller on it. The lathe has an optional 6 position indexing tool changer made by Sin-Limit. The stop position for all tools is...

Hi, I just bought an Acra Fel 1740 Enc lathe with an Anilam 4200t controller on it. The lathe has an optional 6 position indexing tool changer made by Sin-Limit. The stop position for all tools is...

thanks I'll check on Monday.

I have a mid nineties SuperMax with a Fanuc OM on it but I don't have a "tape" option on my selector switch. I can't figure out how to drip feed large programs to the thing. Any help will be...

Where can I get the Heidenhain TNC 150 Post?
Thanks!

I just got a Series 2 Interact 4 mill that had some spindle issues. The brushes were destroyed and ate into the commutator a bit. I bought some new brushes and moved the brush pack up on the...

Hey A1, that is a very good possibilty, I will look in the Heidenhain manual more thoroughly and thanks for checking with Bill. Not much info on the drive itself except for a Contraves sticker but...

Hi, i just bought a Series 2 Interact4 with a TNC 150 for next to nothing. I did however buy it with the knowledge that the spindle did not run. I was told it had to do with the spindle motor...

Thanks, I will check next week and let you know.

Thanks Ahn Vuong - I will look and see.

Maxvic

My machining center kicked into "not ready" mode mid part and eveything stopped. I reset and when I zeroed all axis X and Z moved in rapid but my Y moved very slowly and shot past home and kicked...

The post in Camworks works well for 2 and 3 axis but it does not work with 4 axis. I am having Access Manufacturing write a post for us, if you need to do 4 axis stuff let me know and I'll send you...

Does it tell you what axis? I was having a similar problem on my mill (equipped with a Fanuc OM) and it would say "servo alarm x axis" It turned out to be a dirty servo motor connector. Check and...

Found the problem!! There was a dead short in the Amphenol connector on the X axis servo motor, if you could have seen the condition inside the connector shell no one would have believed that the...

I've checked just about every terminal I can reach and so far nothing has been obviously loose but I'll re check and yes, hissing snapping turtles is exactly what it sounds like!

Thanks Al, any idea as to what would cause such erratic error messages? I can get the thing to jog all axis and run the spindle but then either a spindle alarm or servo alarm comes up - what is...

Some strange things have been happening with my old Dahlih VMC. Occasionally I would get a 424 - X axis not ready in combination with a 404 Vrdy off or a Spindle alarm 1010 (AL-11 on LCD on spindle...

Hi, lots of very accurate motion control stages use timing belts and pulleys driven by servo and stepper motors and accuracy is not lost when the motors reverse. However you will need to design in a...

Thanks, I will keep you website address handy - do you stock all types of Fanuc parts -servo's etc?

Dan, thanks for the info on the pininng. I will check to see how it is wired on Monday - I recall doing that on my other OM - I don't know why it didn't occur to me to look at that - I'm getting old...

Thanks For the Reply Toby, I will double check my cable but I was just using it to download to my other machining center which also has an OM on it - this is why I am bewildered - I hope its not a...