Hi, I'm fairly new here. I bought a Series 1 Bridgeport 3-axis CNC machine at a Hardinge auction a while ago. It seems that the machine itself is unused, but it was robbed of its CNC control. It has the SEC AC Servos and Bijur pump, but no cables, no power supplies, no control, no and no electrics/electronics enclosure. My plan was to outfit it with a retrofit control.
Outfitting a plug-n-play Centroid control is way over my budget, and right now, I don't have the time to tinker with building a setup and getting it running. Since I need the machine to be able to run and make parts right now, I decided to just outfit it with a 3-axis DRO and use it as a manual machine. I can tinker with returning it to its CNC glory at a later time when I have more time to work on it.
So, I bought an Acu-rite 300S DRO kit with 35", 13", and 4" SENC-150 scales. I mounted and hooked up the X and Y axes with no issues. When I opened up the quill enclosure to mount the Z-axis, I noticed that the 4" SENC scale was too long to fit within the enclosure. There's 1.75" of over-travel on the SENCs, so what I'd really need is a 3", but they only make a 2", which would be too short.
There's already a scale mounted on the quill with a cable coming off of it. The brand is Fagor. I would love to just hook up the Fagor scale to the Acu-rite DRO and have everything work. Unfortunately, the connections are different. The fagor uses a 15-pin connection (3 rows of 5, but only positions 1,2,3,4,5,6,9,11 and 15 are used) and the SENC/Acu-rite uses a 9-pin connection (2 rows - 5/4).
A) Will the Fagor scale work with the Acu-rite DRO if I can connect the two?
B) If so, are there commercially available adapters for this?
C) If not, could one be rigged up if I had the wiring schematics (which I think are the ones attached)?
I just don't want to fry my new DRO by hooking up wires that weren't meant to be hooked up!
Thanks!
TJ