Folks,
I have a older machine that I have reconditioned mechanically and is working well in that regard, however the memory and feature limitations of the Mate controller prompted me to take advantage of a good deal on a full 0MC control. I backed everything up, swapped out the controls, and have the new 0MC installed with new OE1 and OE2 chips burned with the proper ladder. I restored the parameters, diagnostic data, etc and all of that is swell, but there is one last problem remaining.
When I purchased the control, it was equipped with an A16B-2200-0390 axis card. This model is for serial encoder servo amps. Because of this, I initially brought up the control without the servo amplifiers connected and the only problems I saw were the expected SPC and digital axis parameter errors. I just replaced that axis card with a A16B-2200-0360 digital A/B encoder axis card that I borrowed from another machine in the shop. This should be the proper A/B encoder, 3/4 axis card for a 32 bit, intel control based upon my understanding of everything I have read. Whenever I install this card into the control, boot just halts with a not ready screen and while it shows the servo version, it does not show the PMC version. This leads me to believe that it is getting upset when it tries to initialize that axis card and not proceeding to initialize the PMC. If I swap the 0390 serial axis card back in, it boots up just as happy as can be, save the expected errors due to having no servo amplifiers connected.
Can anyone help shed some light on what might be going on here? I know the axis card is good. I know the control is good. To the best of my knowledge, the control software version isn't specific for serial versus A/B axis cards, or is it? I'd be grateful for any insight. In the meantime, I had to put back the old Mate control until I can figure out what I'm doing wrong.
Thanks!