Hello,
I am trying to help a friend of mine with his SL-20 lathe so he can use the RS-232 to put programs in and out of it. The glitch here is his Servo Bar 300 bar feed is on serial port 1. He removes the serial cable and it throws up an alarm about not being connected and he can't reset the alarm until that cable is plugged back in.
He believes it is a 1999 SL-20 and bar feed is same age. On the startup screen it shows the following: VER L03.13N, MOCON 10.02, 01-10-01, Model: SL20
He had spoke to a Haas guy and they were not sure of why the bar feed was on serial port 1 and not on 2 like it shows in the manual. (I looked online to get a manual but it was dated for 2001 and it shows it on port 2) It is brushed so there is the need of the cable to go to the control box that sits under the bar feed.
Is there a setting somewhere that we have not found to change the bar feed back to port 2 and allow the file transfer on port 1? He can still get programs in machine and out with floppy but using the RS-232 port would make things simpler for him as the PC is located next to his other lathe that does not have a floppy.
Any help would be truly appreciated as we are both stumped on it at this point.
Thanks