operational mode!
Hello again,
What is it you are trying to do, run a program or just manual movements? Try some manual stuff first to see what your are dealing with. I would start with the simple stuff, "machine" hard key, tool changer soft key, tool changer door open, close soft key. Turret forward, clamp.
I would not recommend screwing with the pallet stuff until you know a little more.
Next do some M.D.I., soft keys first, tool, that will move the turret where you want it, next, tool change to an empty pocket, go on from there.
MDI "M3S1000" then "M5", spindle off.
Next, lock the pallet load station, make sure pallet is at 0 degrees, move selector switch to left, it should light up a green light, that means it is ready to change.
MDI "M72" that will rotate pallet #2 into machining position. If #2 is in the machine MDI "M71" that bring #1 into machining position.
If the green light is not lit next to the selector swith nothing will happen and if the door is not closed you will not even get a green light.
It sounds like you are calling up a pallet change without a green light.
Plan on spending at least a few days to learn the machine, it is not a verticle mill and you have to know how everything works and you have to learn by "doing", hundreds of times and then you have to deal with all the things that have been jacked around by the last owners.
Once you get it you will do fine but do not plan not making any money until you know the machine inside and out, no way around that, "welcome to the club"!
One clue that will save you a lot of time, to turn your offset page back to normal after doing the "automatic tool set" you have to push the "automatic tool set" soft key again, it is a toggle, I think that took me a whole day to figure that one out. Yes, the "automatic toolset" is really badass, there is nothing like loading up 8 or 10 tools and have them qualified automaticly while you are doing something else, real cool!
Do not jack around the tool changer, do not remove tools from the spindle, seems like every time I do it wants to spit the tool out before the tool change, do not ask me why!
Wacth out for bent tool fingers, if they miss the grooves on tool change you are screwed, #30 on mine is bent, some day I might think about fixing it.
Do not load tools in the magizine for the number of the tool that in in the spindle, it dose not know that tool is in there you can guess the rest!
Keep your rapids down for a week or two, use "op stop" and make sure your post is putting out "M01" before tool change! I never run mine over 50% rapid, these are really old machines!
Pull you covers on the Z axiz before you even think about running the machine and clean everything up. Pull the Y cover on the spindle, it is only anout 10 cap screws, clean that up and WD40. Mine failed early, over $4K, I fixed it four or five times and then just spent the money. On yea, blew the 4th axis motor, power supply and 4th axis dirve first week, the 4th axis cable was acting as a conduit for coolant to the cannon plug on the 4th axis motor, not cool!
You can watch everything running by pulling the cover on the front of the machine just below the load station, do not run production until you see how things are looking under the covers.
Once we got thing cleaned up it is a very well built machine and really runs well, well worth the learning curve.
Job one, change the Batteries, in the MRj2 unit for the 4th axis as well, these machines are really old, I did not, batteries died the first week, no warning, manually put in all the parameters, glad I did, learned a lot!
Got a 2007 Doosan a few months ago, making parts and money first day!
Good luck!
LandM1
