Thread: Sodick A320 ex21 RS 232 setup help needed please !!

Floppy drive packed up and trying to use the rs232 cable from my haas mill connect pc to sodick wire.

Have entered in the settings on machine and cam software and cant seem to get it to comunicate.

Any help would be very greatly appreciated

Cheers kev

Hi Kev H:
Talk to Larry Wetmore at EDM Network; he knows these machines very well.
Telephone number is: 951 306-4017.
He's in Southern California.
Larry has a package for converting the floppy drive to a USB drive that works well: here's a link:
http://www.usbmyfloppy.com/
Here's a link to his company website:
http://www.wetmoreedmsystems.com/index.html
Cheers

Marcus
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Hi Marcus

Thanks for info , sounds like Larry is a great guy!

Might email him but being in the UK not keen on the idea of ripping out the pc box and sending somewhere across the pond!! ( even though having USB ports built in would be the bee knees!!)

I'm hoping i can some how get the RS 232 working as that would be easiest and cheapest i expect.

Cheers Kev

Search for pinouts on rs-232 cables, you would be suprised to find some differences. Could be a Null Modem cable. I just got our 84 Deckel EDM communicating with a PC for transferring programs, took me 3 days of troubleshooting. Turns out the controller was locked up after messing with it. After powering down and rebooting all was good. Could be something simple as that.


Good luck