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    Re: Retrofit of an EMCO 120 CNC lathe

    Quote Originally Posted by mukanico View Post
    Hi,

    It seems to be the same controller with just a different form factor... The installation went quite smoothly. All the cables provided by SZGHAuto were correctly labeled so it was almost plug-n-play. The only "complicated" part was making the turret work with the controller. I had to install an arduino based PLC to convert the turret signals. The painful part was setting the parameters though. The manual they provided was almost incomprehensible and some of the parameters mentioned there didn't seem to apply to my specific model...
    I think the CNC1000 has a faster processor, more memory and more I/O but likely the software is the same.

    I have been messing around with the control at home and working out quite a lot of things. I too had issues with the toolchanger, not so much about converting signals but more the macro. The macro itself wasn't too bad if you only wanted to use the 8 tool positions with 8 offsets but as I made a VDI turret for my lathe I wanted to be able to use the full 99 possible offsets. That didn't seem to be an issue at first but then I soon realised that it was messing with the graphic view. I asked SZGH if there was a mod function in ther software but sadly there wasn't and they said basically I would just have to use 8 tool positions and 8 offsets or use the 8 positions with 99 offsets and put up with the graphics display showing incorrectly.
    Thankfully however I found a way to basically mimic modulo so now I can do as I presently do with Mach, and call for example T1515 and the turret will go to position 7 but use offset 15 and the graphics will display properly.

    You mentioned earlier that they sorted you with the Emco logo screen, did they just send a file or did they load that before you purchased? I was trying to do my own but couldn't seem to manage to overwrite the default one.

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    Re: Retrofit of an EMCO 120 CNC lathe

    Quote Originally Posted by Hood View Post
    You mentioned earlier that they sorted you with the Emco logo screen, did they just send a file or did they load that before you purchased? I was trying to do my own but couldn't seem to manage to overwrite the default one.
    Hi,

    I sent them the image file before they shipped the controller and they loaded it. However, recently I also bought from them a milling controller (SZGH?CNC1500MDb?4) for another retrofit I did (I may do a post about it in the future) but forgot to ask for the logo screen. They sent me the instructions to do it myself. I have added them below as they might be applicable to your controller.

    How to change logo?
    1.Prepare a logo picture
    (Format:BMP , Dimension: 800*600)to exchange original logo picture in U-Disk, or (The Best Way)modify in the logo picture on computer.ensure the dimension and format unchanged.
    2.Change No.1 parameter to disable in Password ,and change No.12 parameter(inner parameter ) in Other parameter to 8. (steps:Press”Parameter” ,Press “F7”,enter”Passed” ,No.1,”Is enable CNC Co.’s password? “,press “Enter” ,express”Please input CNC Co.’s password ,the password is “111111”, ”input “1” mean “not”(is disable); And Press “F5”-Other,enter other parameter ,change the No.12 inner parameter to 8)
    3.Restore the parameter(logo picture) into system.
    (Steps:insert U-disk,press “F6”,enter U-disk,press “F2”-Restore ,input parameter,”Please input Machine Co.’s password:666666,press “Enter”,express “Are you sure to input PLC,soft,parameter to CNC?”,Press “Enter”,Input successful ,Please reboot CNC! ,press enter,press “F6”to exit U-disk.)
    4.Reboot CNC ,the logo change is finished.
    5.After reboot, set No.12 parameter in Other parameter to 7.And set No.1 parameter in Password parameter to Enable.

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