I'm a complete newbee in terms of a Mitsubishi control, having run a Haas for a dozen or so years, as well as a Hurco, and an Ajax/Centronics control....
The history ..... I bought a Mighty Comet with a Mitsubishi 520AM control, and have it up and ready to run, after some work, but when I loaded in my first program, and tried to run it, the tool changer crashed, immediately!
Tool changer works fine in MDI, and works fine in the only "left over" program in the machine, so it must be something in the program .....
I surmised that the program which runs ok, cancels all offsets, before commanding a tool change, and then re-calls them up after ..... it also retracts the Z to home before doing a tool change, so I assume this is what is needed, but it sure seems odd, as I never had to do that with the HAAS... all I did there was tell the thing to change a tool, and it did it...
Is there something I'm missing, or is is "normal" to have to cancel the offsets, with a G49, and retract the Z with a G28 before doing a tool change on this control???
Any help would be appreciated ..... the Mits manuals are so convoluted that it is hard to get the information needed ...... I'm sure it is in there somewhere, but it's well hidden.
Dave