Hi I've got a VMC with a mits 520AM control. It worked fine last time it was used but I left it off for a few months and now when the control boots I get an Address Error SR=0004 with a bunch of addresses. None of the buttons does anything. I presume my battery died and the memory is corrupt. I think I have a copy of the parameters from a couple of years ago when I added a 4th axis but I've no idea how to reinitialise the control and get it into a state to accept them via rs232.

I have got the option of calling in the machine builder (who no longer make machines but do service their old ones) but they're a few hundred miles away so I end up paying through the nose for travel time and an overnight stay even if it takes them 2 hours to do the job.

The machine doesn't really earn me any money, I just use it for in-house parts occasionally, so if there's a procedure I can follow I'll give it a shot- if it's really complicated I might just have to bite the bullet.