the 'puter shouldn't be a problem then, if you get hold of more ram shove it in, Mach does like it apparently (says he running on an 800Mhz +256 ram :roll:) tested voltage at the power terminals showed 2.1 volt dc ? Have you connected 5v to the BOB? although the latest C1 looks different I'm sure th...

Right, ignore the speed controller and tool changer. Lets make the carriages move first. Is the PP on the computer an add on or attached to the motherboard? how fast is the computer? how much ram? You sure it's a PP? ie, magenta colour plastic. You need a PP cable from computer to breakout board (BO...

Going with mach will be a lot cheaper and a lot more people know how to play with it than Hiedenhan. The connectors can be got from rs - trident connectors I think. The drives can be reused with the little board designed by david. The drives use 12v. The drive on mine was a KEB. You'll probably get ...

I'm sure there's one on the forum - use the search facility

but you'd probably be better buying a new one

I'm not even convinced that the easiturn will accept a drip (other than the operator )
If you're using cad/cam anything that comes out of that will be free of repeat blocks. with all the memory available in machine tools now they're just not needed.

If you don't want to mess with the electronics (why would you when its working fine ?) Well from memory when mine had NEE control you couldn't actually save any offsets when you turned the machine off (ok so my tape didn't work) and getting the serial to work is hit & miss. and no MPG. For Mach, th...

You wont find one in better condition!

Nor older

then suck it and see.

if you put a 3A fuse before the drives then they can't draw more then that, if they blow the steppers need bigger drives

I'm sure a couple of gecko 201's will work just fine

Upgrading the machine is staright forward when/if you know what you're doing, you can even reuse the existing steper drivers. The best bet is to look around this site. The tool changer can be done with Visual basic script in Mach3, I've never done anything as seroius as that with vb as I don't have ...

there's a bloke that flogs copies on fleabay... but after having found out how it works you'll want to upgrade it - that's why it was cheap

you'll need a spindle speed controller

http://www.cnc4pc.com/Store/osc/index.p ... 7f67a821b9

but I don't know anything about the controller you have I usually find that just after getting the existing drive sussed out and running it goes & dies!

This machine is identical to mine, except I dont have the CNC control pod on the right Not much of a cnc then is it? :lol: do you mean it has the control on the top on the left? Anyway after an hour of curiosity you would want to throw the control out the window (not quite cutting edge now), so Mac...

this machine have a error : System faulty engine and transmission You mean the motor doesn't work? It looks like the wiring diags for an Easiturn would be very similar (no I don't have any) try a seach on the site. If the Variable frequency drive is duff you can easily find another similar one to f...

I'm making up for it now though!

yeah, but I can mend them and make bits for them - will the kids today be able to do that? It doesn't appear so to me.

This course stuff at school today is very pretty & nice designs but I can't help thinking that this is not going to help kids to learn how to use hand tools. I made things from metal with hacksaws and files, my kids made things with hacksaws & files with plastic, now it sems they make things with co...

try with G99 or G98 in front of G81 otherwise dunno

You have to manually shift the carousel to tool position 1 then M27 and it then thinks the current tool is number 1 - it doesn't actually move the carosel after entering M27 - oh did you press run after entering M27 in MDI? you can test it out after by entering M6 T3 for example and the carousel wil...

Off the top of my head with no docs in front of me
In MDI type in M25
this resets current holder to number 1 so move to number one first.

if it's not M25 it's M 20 something, if nobody chips in I'll find the book tomorro

so is this with a fanuc control?

sounds like the switch isn't connected have you checked it out?