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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mori Seiki TL-5 TL5 Fanuc 2000 upgrade

« on: February 18, 2011, 06:16:44 PM »

Sorry Piv, That was the old Fanuc spindle drive, I will ask my buddy see what he has.
Hood, No wonder you changed the control, Mark century, I know guys that have not only run a mile from those, they are still running...
Ray.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Spindle pulley setup?

« on: February 17, 2011, 11:14:45 PM »

OK, I guess I have to go into the setting screen to select pulley #1 or 2 every time I want to change gears, I just thought by selecting the speed range assigned to each pulley  it would shift from 1 to 2 even though I still have to manually change gears.
ray.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mori Seiki TL-5 TL5 Fanuc 2000 upgrade

« on: February 17, 2011, 10:59:03 PM »

Piv, Is this what you in have in your spindle?

VRDY1 & 2  (velocity ready)
TLM5 TLM6 (torque limit)  
OVL 1 & 2 ( overload)
FA FB (fuse alarm)
SDRY 1 SDRY 2 (servo ready)
TH1 & TH2 (thermal)
TLM1 & TLM2 ( it says pin in orient)
TSA TSB (tach)
I will look for the motor pin outs, as I said I did have my motors running, but not for long.
Ray.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mori Seiki TL-5 TL5 Fanuc 2000 upgrade

« on: February 17, 2011, 08:44:21 PM »

Guys, As I said before, I can live with feed hold and I do drop the FRO down to Zero before the next cycle, but not everbody does.
After my mill has been tested I will be doing a 60" chuck lathe with Fanuc motors and drives so you can imagine the size of the job that's going on it..I need to stop the slide in a reasonable time and this is unreasonable. Rufi did say the acc/dec is set in the DSPMC and he hopes to make it the same as Mach, I thought It would be just a parameter change. I can show you cheesy cheapo 2 axis PC machines that can stop on a dime. It can't do your cutters any good the way it slows down then ramps up again.
Ray.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: If I don't have a none integrated graphics board what happens?

« on: February 17, 2011, 08:23:37 PM »

Thanks Hood.
ray.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Spindle pulley setup?

« on: February 17, 2011, 08:22:11 PM »

How does it normally work, I thought if you programmed your S command to the Pulley #setting it would it would change the # in the box in settings screen from 1 to 2, mine doesn't change.
Ray.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Spindle pulley setup?

« on: February 16, 2011, 10:41:39 PM »

Hi Dave, You mean the settings screen right? That's OK, so Is that what i have to do when I change gear? I thought by setting the speed ranges it would then know what range..
Ray.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: If I don't have a none integrated graphics board what happens?

« on: February 16, 2011, 10:35:59 PM »

Sorry, yes I have an on board and I'm not using steppers so I guess I'm OK.
Thanks.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mori Seiki TL-5 TL5 Fanuc 2000 upgrade

« on: February 16, 2011, 10:33:04 PM »

Hi Piv, The first problem I had was over a year ago using the 7761 hooking it up to Fanuc motors and drives.
The Fanuc drive I was using was the 3 in 1 type, kept getting over current for some reason, the motors were not hooked up, then it was all over, drive pooched.
I thought is was fault until I spoke with the guys at Machmotion, it was the 7761 unit, the new firmware upgrade  supposed to fix that,$2000.00 to repair the drive.
Now I am testing some SEM dc servo motors with pulse coders and tach and at 40"/min when I hit feedhold the Acc/dec is so slow it's pathetic, Rufi said he will try to repair it soon....
I even ordered the new 7762 unit because I have a customer with a 60" lathe that he wants retrofitting and I had to put it on hold.
I posted a few days ago about the Acc/dec problem title " .300" overrun at 120"/min".
When I rapid and stop it's fine, but not in program.
Other problem is when I run the famous roadrunner program and press program stop (I know I shouldn't use program stop) and restart it moves to the block look ahead postion and carries on without loosing postion, so it skips like 100 blocks or so. I tested it on a desk top with just Mach3 installed no DSPMC and the program just restarts right up from when it stopped.
Ray.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mori Seiki TL-5 TL5 Fanuc 2000 upgrade

« on: February 16, 2011, 06:32:10 PM »

I have been working on Mori's since 1980, Your machine is about a 1977/78. The main spindle motor should a Mitsubishi or Fuji and will be a 17.5 Kw/25HP. Just had one rebuilt for a customer at a cost of $3500. If it runs leave it alone, and the drives until they break, It's not worth spending tons of money on a 1978 machine unless you are going to regrind the slides because I know they will require grinding after 30 odd years of hard use and cast iron on cast iron. Turret is electric driven, Hyd, clamp, well from 1979 on, through a Geneva gear and about 4 proximity switches for the count, I would put an encoder. The gearbox in the head is no problem, 2 electromagnetic clutches 24vdc. Not sure about the Gettys Fanuc motors, they could have tach and resolvers.
I have lots of customers with Mori's that I want to put Mach3 with DSPMC and I am in the testing period as we speak, but I am having some issues and Hood has been kindly helping me along with some of them  My PC integration sucks, but I do know machine tools. DSPMC is giving me the most  problems.
I should have a bunch of old data for the TL's, let me know if I can help.
Ray.