[daldof]

Need rs232 communication input file to osai ab 8600.

I have a cnc center from cms equipped with osai AB 8600, my old mastermill cam and postprocessor died with an old pc, and i'm not able to find win 95 compadable hardware. :-)

I’m trying to adapt new software to communicate with the osai,
I need a printout, or a copy of a serial rs232 file sent from a postprocessor to the osai in order to find the communication speed, handshake and codes to tell the osai to recieve and what memory bank to save the program in etc. before and after the g-codes to set up my new cnccam.net postprocessor. Could anyone please help me with that?

[shoplink]

INFO FROM MY LEGACY NOTES, CONTACT ME AT Highland DNC, LLC. IF YOU LIKE.
PARAMETERS FOR THE AB8600

CABLE

HUB CONTROL

2 2
3 3
7 7
4 TO 6 TO 8 TO 20




SHOPLINK HUB PARAMETERS

CNC PROTOCALS
DOWN B=ALLEN BRADLEY
UP A=BASIC PROTOCAL
PARITY
DOWN A= ASCII EVEN PARITY
UP A= ASCII EVEN PARITY
BAUD 9600
STOP BITS 2
LEADER TRAILER SENT TO CNC N
ASCII NULLS SENT TO CNC N
COMMENTS STRIPPED N





CONTROL PARAMETERS

8600 SYSTEM CPU MODULE (80286) JUMPER SETTINGS

P8 2-3 DISABLE DATA TERMINAL READY
P9 2-3 DISABLE REQUEST TO SEND
P13 1-2 RS232 ACTIVE

[Sparkie1]

Word of warning AB8600 has live voltages on the port pins do not short unused pins to ground or other pins live voltages are used to drive paper tape punch...