Originally Posted by
Rico55
Dan,
Look in the "Knee Vertical Mills" forum for the thread on DynaMyte 2400 conversion- there is a lot of good information there.
Good reading for cnc geeks like us but maybe scary reading for the uninitiated ? Near the end of the thread it's mentioned Mach3 can control this machine using the original drives and motors with just a bit of additional electronics. Not much detail provided but looks like help is available on the Mach3 forum.
Dan
Have you fired up the machine ? Is anything readable coming up on the control screen ? Tried any manual jogs ?
The original control memory is limited to 999 lines by looks of things. That's a lot of hand code but not much if your students have an interest in generating code with software (CAM). Mach3 uses a more standard form of code. Depends what your goals are.
Anyone who says "It only goes together one way" has no imagination.