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Title: MACH3 RETROFIT TO A EMCO COMPACT 5
Post by: emco on May 22, 2012, 10:36:03 PM

Hi All......... Jamie Here

I have a emco compact 5 running original software.
I would like to change it to mach3 software, my question is do I need to change any of the hardware in the emco compact5 lathe or will mach3 work with
The current hardware.

Thanks in Advance for any help with this question.

Title: Re: MACH3 RETROFIT TO A EMCO COMPACT 5
Post by: 762x51 on May 23, 2012, 12:08:22 PM

Link to conversion: http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/Emco_cnc_users/files/5PC%20-%20Conversion%20to%20MACH3/ (http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/Emco_cnc_users/files/5PC%20-%20Conversion%20to%20MACH3/)

Title: Re: MACH3 RETROFIT TO A EMCO COMPACT 5
Post by: sharpshooterser on May 25, 2016, 05:34:35 PM

I hate to bring up an old topic like this, but I have the Emco Compact 5 PC with WELturn retrofit, and it is working, but will the mentioned conversion work for my machine, or is it just for the stock Compact 5? Thanks

Title: Re: MACH3 RETROFIT TO A EMCO COMPACT 5
Post by: 762x51 on May 25, 2016, 05:44:13 PM

It's a conversion for a stock Compact 5PC

Title: Re: MACH3 RETROFIT TO A EMCO COMPACT 5
Post by: sharpshooterser on June 05, 2016, 12:39:00 AM

Thanks. And no way I can use this machine that has welturn retrofit to make it use with Mach3? Besides getting all modern hardware - bob, drivers and stepper motors?

Title: Re: MACH3 RETROFIT TO A EMCO COMPACT 5
Post by: sdalcher on October 09, 2016, 08:48:31 PM

I'm not familiar with Welturn, but I have converted my compact 5 to run Mach3. Glad to exchange notes with you. I have the steppers working well, still trying to figure out spindle control at this point.

Title: Re: MACH3 RETROFIT TO A EMCO COMPACT 5
Post by: sharpshooterser on December 19, 2016, 10:18:25 AM

I wasnt active as I wanted to. In the meantime, I managed to run old Welturn version in LinuxCNC with Samco's help. It ran nicely, but a bit slow for my liking. I replaced all the electronics now, and it has modern steppers, running at 1.2m/min (could achieve more, but I would need to replace the power supply to 60V, over this speed steppers stall with 48V). I am thinking about replacing them also with hybrid steppers with encoders.

Title: Re: MACH3 RETROFIT TO A EMCO COMPACT 5
Post by: cwilken on December 14, 2017, 07:00:03 AM

I am interested to know if anyone was able to Make the Welturn upgrade to the EMCO 5  lathe work with Mach3 or Mach4??????????