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Mach Discussion => General Mach Discussion => Topic started by: kjam on July 20, 2013, 11:22:44 AM
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Im new here but if anyone can help me with this or give me any advice it would be greatly appreciated. I have a 1985 BP series 1 R2E4 and I have looked into Mach Motion they have a kit there for around $6,600. So has anyone out there used this kit with this particular machine and dose it work well?
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Veritable Frequency Drive..... wondering how hard this is going to be to hook up?
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I ordered the rest of my retro kit today, should have it in a week from today. having a hard time figuring out what to take off the machine and leave on the machine. Have boocoos of pic's if anyone whould like to help me figure this out. The machine is very nice kinda hate to take it apart.
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What is better to use a usb external disc drive or a usb zip drive?
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It will all depend what you got in the kit but likely if its a complet kit with drives/motors/controller etc then I would imagine the majority of your old wiring/controls will need to be removed.
Hood
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What are you using the USB drive for? Just transferring files?
Hood
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Just got done taking out the old control boards and I got an email from mach motion, he told me everything comes out so I can mount my servo drives in the box. But I'm not sure about the other stuff in the power supply box I know there are some relays and low amperage stuff in there.
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Yes to transfer files, the guy that scans my parts just needsto know what I want to put my programs on or in.
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Don't forget I'm still very new to this. But I'm trying.
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Well personally I prefer to have all my machines networked to my desktop computer at the workshop (hard wired network, not wireless) but if transferring by USB then a simple USB stick will do, just make sure you copy it to your hard drive from the stick rather than trying to run it from the stick.
Not sure what you got in the kit but iot is always a good idea to have contactors for things such as your mains to your drives etc.
Hood
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I'm putting in a new computer in my shop, if you think it would be better that way that's fine. What do you use Ethernet cables?
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Not saying its better, just a lot easier for me :)
I do all my CAD/CAM on my desktop and then transfer over the code via the network to any of the machines. Yes hard wired with Cat5 or CAT6 cables.
Hood
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Im having a company scan my parts for me, they use solid works. I cannot operate cad cam of any kind. So I'm not sure how I want to get my files yet but the zip drive is starting to sound good.
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If they are producing the G Code for you then it will just be a file that you can get transferred any way you wish, they could even email it to you.
Hood
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You can see this cnc package on mach motions web site. Go into kits for mills and you will see three different kits mine will be the center one. The only extra I got was a pindint and a vfd.
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Email I like that.
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Is there anyone here that has got a kit from mach motion recently or in the past or still working on one? I have a few questions
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Not used any kits at all from anyone but if you post the questions maybe I or others can help and if not then maybe someone who has used their kits will pop in and reply.
Hood
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Thanks Hood I'll do that.
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I was actually meaning post the questions you are wanting to ask rather than just saying you want to ask some questions :)
Lots of people may not like to say that they have done a MachMotion retro, and can answer, in the fear that when the actual questions are asked they then dont know the answers.
So if you actually ask the questions then you may get someone replying with an answer.
Hood
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Just didn't think it thru very well. Hope you don't have to deal with people like me daily. :-)