Hello from Australia. I have recently bought a Deckel FP3NC machine that had a issue with the original controller. I am retro fitting with a Small PLC and motion controller but i need help to program how the lubrication pumps are too work. I know the lube pump for the slideways are generally pulsed for a short amount of time per so many minutes of running. But can somebody with a Deckel tell me how the pump that supplies oil upto the gearbox and spindle works. ie. does it run all the time or does it run on start up for a short time to fill the gearbox then stop. If I run it for too long it empties the reservoir tank before it starts to return back to the tank via the return hose. Once the machine stops and sits for a while the oil all returns back to the tank. Hopefully someone can give me a description on how it originally should have worked so I can program the same operation into the PLC I am using. Thanks in advance for your help.
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