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General Mach Discussion / Re: New people welcome !! Come in here and introduce your self!
« on: January 31, 2012, 11:43:49 PM »
Hi I'm Ron from south central Mich. As a retired Sheriff detective and a 42 year career in aircraft mechanics I think I finally met my match trying to learn how to make my newly acquired Cnc to just move an inch. I bought a Bob Cad 5050 three axis 6x6 table. The prev owner was making yard signs using Dos. Well I loaded windows XP on his old machine and now the 37 pin cable that plugs into the bobcat controller and ya ya board in the computer won't talk anymore! I talked with Aneheim Automation that made the box in 1992 and they don't seem to have any of the pin outs that they can help me with on a 10 year old controller . I didn't think that wording diagrams were like tax paperwork and now they want me to buy a new unit so they can only help you with it for 10 years, what the heck. I guess a software called Quick Step has a wording diagram to go from a 37 pin on the controller end and wire it into a 25 pin plug on the computer end. I promise to become a frequent talker if someone could make my Cnc talk and play with me and many I would even let it make a yard sign for me. I would buy more updated controllers and computers but I have 2 new controllers and extra servo motors that must have some use. I have over a thousand dollars worth of version 24 Bob cad cam and Mach 3 software and I set here with my emergency stop switch in hand to no avail. H. E. L. P. The old dog is feeling old ! Coop