dustincram
Plastic
- Joined
- Mar 14, 2009
- Location
- Vancouver, WA
Hi all! A few weeks back I posted about buying a new to me vmc, thanks for all your input, I went with a 1994 VF 3 with an HRT 210.
I made a nice pile of parts last week and really got to know the machine. I have sprut cam talking to it, soldered up a 9-25 pin rs232 cable with a usb converter, got the air hooked up, coolant etc. I also got all my new glacern tooling broken in a bit and mounted the two new 6 in double station vises using a new 3d taster. All without crashing anything!
Anyway the machine was advertised as having rigid tapping, I got to tapping holes and read in the manual that the diagnostics page should read actual spindle speed in the analog section, and it just reads zero even with spindle on. So I searched the forums and thought the encoder belt was broken. I looked around by the spindle motor a bit and found no encoder, so I called up haas to ask if that serial number had rt. they said it did and the bit was set to on in switch parameter 57. So I read the the manual more and found drawings of the encoder and where it should be, crawled up there and no encoder or pulleys. So I guess it has no rt encoder, and my question is can I just add the hardware and plug it in or do I need to pay haas to turn something on in software? Has anybody ever just added an aftermarket encoder?
Thanks in advance!
I made a nice pile of parts last week and really got to know the machine. I have sprut cam talking to it, soldered up a 9-25 pin rs232 cable with a usb converter, got the air hooked up, coolant etc. I also got all my new glacern tooling broken in a bit and mounted the two new 6 in double station vises using a new 3d taster. All without crashing anything!
Anyway the machine was advertised as having rigid tapping, I got to tapping holes and read in the manual that the diagnostics page should read actual spindle speed in the analog section, and it just reads zero even with spindle on. So I searched the forums and thought the encoder belt was broken. I looked around by the spindle motor a bit and found no encoder, so I called up haas to ask if that serial number had rt. they said it did and the bit was set to on in switch parameter 57. So I read the the manual more and found drawings of the encoder and where it should be, crawled up there and no encoder or pulleys. So I guess it has no rt encoder, and my question is can I just add the hardware and plug it in or do I need to pay haas to turn something on in software? Has anybody ever just added an aftermarket encoder?
Thanks in advance!