Re: Tormach battery need
Originally Posted by
toyshop
My 1100 is old enough that it came with mach and I upgraded to PathPilot. I read about cnc machines loosing their parameters when a maintenance battery dies. Do these machines have one either in the controller or the cpu?
My machine is unplugged a lot, especially due to lightning storms.
Thanks Dave
Not in the same sense as a Fanuc system might lose parameters. Any PC based system like the Tormach has the parameters stored on the hard drive, as a file, so you won't lose the parameters on a BIOS battery fail. A hard drive failure would cause a loss of parameters, so back up your hard drive. Hard drives fail, it is not a matter of ''if'' it's a matter of ''when''.
Jim Dawson
Sandy, Oregon, USA