Hello all,
I have a apotential Sword of Damocles hanging over one of my machines. It is a Hitchi seiki minimatic 500 with a Fanuc 5M control.
I have religeously replaced the batteries on the memory over the years, and all has gone well so far. But, I can no longer find the parameter loading tape for this machine. I have all of the parameters written down and recorded.
According to myth, the first set of 3 to six parameters can only be loaded by a convoluted tape ritual.
A couple of questions. I am using a refresh your memory setup on the tape reader port for inputting code anyway. could this be used to input the parameter data? ( I would need to know the data format to write the code to simulate the tape.)
Or is there a manual way to input this data without the need for the tape reader and small animal sacrifice??
any help would be most appreciated!
thank you,
arnie