[MCImes]

So I program and run a Tsugami BX12 swiss lathe with a Fanuc 18i-t dual path control from 1996

I had a motherboard die on me a month ago and it was a huge ordeal to get it running again. Anyways its been running fine lately but I havent had parts with much backwork on them so today is the first time Ive used the G83 peckdrill cycle on the sub spindle.

Well, as my title implies when it gets to the drill cycle it just feeds to depth (like G1) with no pecks. Does anyone know if there is a 9000 parameter to enable/disable peck drilling or if its something else?

Before it died it worked fine but since we didnt have a sub side parameter backup we went back to "original" parameters and there have been some goofy things we've had to work through.

I know I can write a macro loop to do my drilling but I'd rather try to get G83 to work again. Any thoughts?

Thanks!

[txcncman]

Another example of why machine owners need to have back ups of all parameters BEFORE failure occurs.

[angelw]

So I program and run a Tsugami BX12 swiss lathe with a Fanuc 18i-t dual path control from 1996

I had a motherboard die on me a month ago and it was a huge ordeal to get it running again. Anyways its been running fine lately but I havent had parts with much backwork on them so today is the first time Ive used the G83 peckdrill cycle on the sub spindle.

Well, as my title implies when it gets to the drill cycle it just feeds to depth (like G1) with no pecks. Does anyone know if there is a 9000 parameter to enable/disable peck drilling or if its something else?

Before it died it worked fine but since we didnt have a sub side parameter backup we went back to "original" parameters and there have been some goofy things we've had to work through.

I know I can write a macro loop to do my drilling but I'd rather try to get G83 to work again. Any thoughts?

Thanks!

Check to see if there is a value registered in parameter #5114 (retract distance), and check that parameter bit #5101.2 is set to 1

Regards,

Bill

[MCImes]

Just as a follow up your suggestion worked.

Both those parameters were 0, thus the problem. I checked them on my other tsugami and the retract distance was 100 and the RTR was 1. After changing those it works great!

Thanks angel