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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.
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.