Hello gents,
I recently got my "new" 1997 VMC15XT powered up. But I'm having a hell of a time transferring files to it. At first I was running Program 1. Also, I had a cable the plugged into the 25 pin on the back of the machine that had a 9 pin serial on the other end. My laptop is newer so it doesn't have a 9 pin, so I bought a serial to USB adapter.
Things were going semi-ok, transfers, after setting the the baud rate and all that, were hit and miss, sometimes it would transfer a file, sometimes it would transfer part of it then give me a parity error. Sometimes it would give me a parity error right off the bat. Eventually I got a program in. By this time I had figured out that Program 2 is what I wanted.
When trying to cut parts, I was getting weird behavior which I managed to trace back to a weird G92 code line (with help). But in trying to solve the problem, I had went in and set the Parameters to what the manual said they should be.
Now the machine won't even recognize that anything is coming in, after a TA,1
I sent a file from the machine to the computer, but it was all garbage, just x's.
So then I tore apart the cable and wired the end like the diagram in the manual under 25 pin to 9 pin. This didn't help.
Any thoughts, I'm dying here.
I just tried to buy a computer with a serial port the same as the Fadal, but they're not made anymore.
Thanks,
Justin