[300sniper]

I've got a Hardinge Talent 6/45 with the oi-tc control. I have no idea when the batteries were changed before I got it. I had sitting powered down for about a year and just now got it powered back up. I want to change the batteries but I'm a bit confused where they go. The illustrations in my manual don't match what I see at the machine. I do not even see the turret control. My machine is not live tool. Also, my main control doesn't look like the one illustrated. I don't want to start taking covers off things I don't know anything about. Can someone help me out with where the batteries go? Also, are there any other batteries I need to be worried about? These were the only two I saw referenced in the manual.

[JohnnyTurn]

The batteries will either be in a central location, (like on the electronic enclosure door, Etc.)
(One two of my Hardinge's, the battery box is located on the outside of the cabinet, low to the floor.)

Or, could be on one of the Fanuc Axis Drives. Should be a little plastic pop-off cover that protrudes out.
You squeeze the tabs to release, and pull it off.

Sometimes you get lucky and the machines are set up for regular Alkaline D Cell Bats.
Other times the machines are set up with the Fanuc/Panasonic Lithium Bats. (Ganged)

I got sick and tired of using the Fanuc/Panasonic Bats. So I made up my own.
Go to a good electronic store. Buy a AA battery Box, a Velcro strip with adhesive on one side and some heat shrink tubing that fits the wire.

If it's a 6V battery you are replacing, get a (4) AA Battery Box (1.5V x 4 = 6V)
Etc., Etc.

Use the connector off the old dead battery and solder it on to your new box leads.
Heat shrink over the connections.
Stick one Velcro on the back of the battery box. One inside the machine cabinet at a convenient place.
Double check the battery's polarity with a tester and connect to machine.

You can use either good alkaline bats or if you wish lithium. Not lithium ion, mind you!

Both types of bats last a year. Any more and you are pushing it!
In my experience, the lithium bats. fall off very steeply at the end of a year.
Where the alkaline bats. taper off more gradually. Both will get you thru a year.

You may also need to re-zero the lathe if the bats went dead.

Good Luck!

[300sniper]

I found the main control battery inside the control panel, not in the power cabinet where the manual said. I still do not see the turret control and am wondering if not all of these machines have it. Should this machine have a turret control and turret control battery? I've got both batteries from the part numbers in the manual.

[JohnnyTurn]

The Talent replaced the Cobra line of lathes.
In my Hardinge arsenal, I have two Cobras.

What alarms are you getting about the Bats?
Are you getting the APZ needs zero alarm?
The bats you found......are they D cell alkaline or the Fanuc/Panasonic lithium type?

The bats you found.....what is the total voltage/number of bats?

If it is 3V, that will be for only one memory. Ex.CNC data.
There will be another 6V set of Bats. For the encoders.

If you found A Battery...... Totaling 6V. This should be all the bats. In the machine. But it depends how they set it up.

My 1997 Cobra 42 uses two sets of Bats. One D Cell, one Fanuc.
D cell for encoders 6V, and Fanuc 3V for CNC memory.

MY 2001 Cobra 51 just has one 6V Fanuc on the axis drive that handles everything.

Hardinge was always looking for cost savings on little items on these base machines. So if they could eliminate parts and procedures, they did.

Let me know what you find.