Charmilles 440cc edge find

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CMD1992

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Oct 20, 2015

• Oct 22, 2015

• #1

Morning, having a problem with a charmilles 440cc when trying to do a edge find cycle against a ground job the wire appears to be snapping after having tried all the standard stuff changing contacts, electrical touch etc i have came to a dead end and was wondering if anyone had any ideas?

there is voltage running through the wire and nothing tripped in the electrical side cabinet have also contacted charmilles and tried numerous suggestions from them.

Thanks, Chris

 

Mike1974

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Nov 5, 2014

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Tampa area

• Oct 22, 2015

• #2

Have you tried any other cycles, hole, alignment, center? Tried edge find in different directions/axis? Just tossing some ideas out there, you said you tried all the obvious stuff like checking ground and such. Maybe just one direction, like X+ is screwy?

 

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CMD1992

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• Oct 22, 2015

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Yes tried all of the above just get same result with the wire snapping each time

 

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KilrB

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Angleton, Texas

• Oct 22, 2015

• #4

Have you verified the correct .WIR and .TEC files are activated?

Verified that the upper contact wetting is adequate?

Checked the upper contact and pinch rollers for grooving?

In the absence of any problems in these areas:

We had the same problem on our CUT-400 and it turned out to be bad capacitors in the power supply.

 

Mike1974

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Tampa area

• Oct 22, 2015

• #5

I ran an older Charmilles 290 and 310 and sometimes they did some strange stuff. Have you tried re-initializing the machine? That was my last resort if nothing else worked. On the 290 sometimes I had to pull and re-seat boards and reload software. It was not well maintained I should say...

 

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CMD1992

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• Oct 22, 2015

• #6

have checked all of above still having no luck, maybe capacitors as suggested?

 

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KilrB

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Angleton, Texas

• Oct 22, 2015

• #7

CMD1992 said:

have checked all of above still having no luck, maybe capacitors as suggested?

Click to expand...

If it's like ours, you'll know for sure in about a week when it stats popin' real loud and blowing sparks out the bottom of the cabinet ...

 

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agieman

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Aug 25, 2010

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New England

• Nov 6, 2015

• #8

quick question. is it breaking wire before contacting the piece or after?

 

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IANSKI

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San Diego

• Nov 6, 2015

• #9

Sorry to "Jump a thread" but I saw "Charmiles" and couldn't resist! I was hoping that you could help me locate information for a Charmilles EDM. If you could help me to locate an operating guide or a manual for a Charmilles Eleroda 110 EDM sinker machine I would appreciate it! Charmilles no longer supports this machine and I cann only find a manuel for $500!
Thank you!

Ian

 

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dsergison

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Oct 23, 2003

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East Peoria, IL, USA

• Nov 8, 2015

• #10

reinitialize, or even reload your software from disk. my console 2 robofil forgets stuff like this occasionally if it's turned off for to many days... sometimes it forgets how to switch pumps on, or how to edge detect...

I'm living on borrowed time I know... but my borrowing rate is much cheaper than financing a new one so i will keep borrowing until then.

 

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jim may

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Houston

• Jan 4, 2016

• #11

I have a 440 machine but its not a cc. I had problems with wire breaks and it ended up being my homemade carbide contacts. I put the
charmilles carbide in and never had a problem with it after that. Different carbide has different electrical properties. I have several other
Charmilles and no problem with my carbide contacts. You might try that.