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General Mach Discussion / Re: new user : keeping old (2000) servo drive with mach 3

« on: July 09, 2008, 09:44:52 AM »

I will post pics of the machine tomorrow it will clear thing up.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: new user : keeping old (2000) servo drive with mach 3

« on: July 08, 2008, 07:20:32 PM »

no it's not difficult , time consuming maybe !.

i am not familiar with the machine you have but we should be able to advise and walk you through

email me off list if you wish
where are you based ?

Dave

Thanks a lot i will surely email you if i go that route.

Is the encoder or decoder need to be special ??

I'm in canada quebec more precisely.

Not sure what you mean but if its can it be done then yes it can, will it work as good as before then yes it should and probably better. I have a large lathe from 1981 that I have retrofitted and its used daily and no problems.

Hood

You understood me correctly. Thanks

I will look into rutex.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: new user : keeping old (2000) servo drive with mach 3

« on: July 08, 2008, 04:45:46 PM »

I have many electrical plans ... but not in deep details ... i'm stuck ...

hood do you think it can work in long terms? (sur it depend on the execution but in general)

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General Mach Discussion / Re: new user : keeping old (2000) servo drive with mach 3

« on: July 08, 2008, 04:37:52 PM »

Is it difficult to rettrofit, out of 10

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General Mach Discussion / Re: new user : keeping old (2000) servo drive with mach 3

« on: July 08, 2008, 01:26:56 PM »

I think analog, I need to adjust screw behind the drive.

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General Mach Discussion / new user : keeping old (2000) servo drive with mach 3

« on: July 08, 2008, 01:13:27 PM »

Hi welcome everyone.

I introduce myself, I'm a machinist who got a cnc mill 1 years ago (tawain one with CTEK control). It's a 2000 model. The drive, motors and other thing are easy to get (a little costly but still ok). The major problem is the computer, it's an old 166 with isa motion card. The mother board is very important (i tried to swap it and the servo was not responding) I think is the bios setting that make it all(but try find an otherone). Here come my problem, yesterday i tried to boot the computer, nothing on the screen, i go behind the hard drive was turning, fan, power supply ?? I tried to swap video card (wich was pci of course !!!) nothing, tried with another computer(hooked up to the machine power) it work. Now I've become to the point asking myself if it was the time to upgrade or again repair something that will break up and will be pain to fix. Now my question :

Is it possible to keep everything drive , servo, tapping, break, spindle, with a pc with mach3(without the motion card ?). And will it be efficient in a "production like" shop??

Thanks a lot for the reading.