hi, I new to this site but I have read several psts from guys horrified at the limited Offset capabilities of the 5T ,since I had the same nightmare ,i began searching for the fix ,it is right in the programmers manual ,Enable the Incremental Offset Option,so far i have done this on 3 different machines all with 5T's,,,a GN5 cadillac Lathe And two Ikegai chuckers FX25N and FX20N
Parameter 05 (6th bit from the right set to "1" ) allows the input of an offset number less than 99999 ,but then using the keypad you can add to this any amount as long as its less than 99999 say 90000 + 90000 makes an offset of 180000 since i discovered this and some are having trouble with this I have experimented and it seems the control will store very large numbers,i ptu in 54.0000 and it stored it. (9.0000 5 times).I would love to hear that this helps some of the guys wanting to run this control.
Peace
Paul