I'm looking for *any* information from someone with knowledge about how a tool presetter probe is interface to a Mitsubishi control. Ideally I'm looking for information on an older Meldas M3 control and a Renishaw TS27R, but I suspect that this is not all that necessary. The machine I want to adapt is a Dyna Mechtronics DM4400m, although, again, the type of machine probably doesn't matter that much.
The TS27R is really nothing more than a switch. On my MC161 CPU card the switch connects to CNA18 #1 and #7. The latter is +24VDC and the former is the input pin. Now the problem.... The M3 control (well, all of the Mitsubishi controls) used G37 as the Auto TLM process. I am 99% sure that I have the physical interface working properly. But when I initiate the G37, I never get a length recognition when I manually "trip" the length sensor. There could be a few different reasons for this. First, the manuals make sound like the input I'm using is shared by several SKIP inputs and you somehow tell the control which one to look at. This means I might need an additional command maybe in the code? Is that right? But the manual doesn't mention anything about an input selection. Or maybe this is all vague because it is part of the PLC? I don't really know.
I also know that Renishaw has a CD with a bunch of macros. I'm not entirely sure how this fits with the functions built into the Meldas control. So, one of my questions for *anyone* that has a Meldas control is.... Do you have macros installed that manage your tool presetter (or touch probe), or do is everything managed by the built in functions of the control?
Basically, I'm trying to reach out to someone that has some type of probe connected to a Meldas control. We can go from there.
Thanks!