I recently purchased a FP3NC retrofitted with a Heidenhain tnc360 controller, please excuse my ignorance first NC machine I own - others all manual(fp1 and fp2).
Controller was giving an error, which Heidenhain have since fixed. Apparently the eprom had been removed. They replaced and loaded the software again, luckily they had a backup, was a machine that they had done years ago.
I reconnected controller up again and get a bit further now, was able to start machine(fan comes on), but at the point where machine needs to Traverse Reference Points nothing happens when I press Start.
To add to problems the monitor also decided to pack up, trying to get it fixed - but no luck yet.
Looking at the servo cards, there are no lights except one green light on card number 038035.
Cards seem to have been worked on and dont look that great.
Is there anything I could try to get machine running?
Should the machine still come on if cards are faulty - did try removing cards.
Not sure if I should continue trying to fix current setup or maybe better to look at changing setup.
Maybe just change servo cards and keep controller - not sure if that possible.
Controller was giving an error, which Heidenhain have since fixed. Apparently the eprom had been removed. They replaced and loaded the software again, luckily they had a backup, was a machine that they had done years ago.
I reconnected controller up again and get a bit further now, was able to start machine(fan comes on), but at the point where machine needs to Traverse Reference Points nothing happens when I press Start.
To add to problems the monitor also decided to pack up, trying to get it fixed - but no luck yet.
Looking at the servo cards, there are no lights except one green light on card number 038035.
Cards seem to have been worked on and dont look that great.
Is there anything I could try to get machine running?
Should the machine still come on if cards are faulty - did try removing cards.
Not sure if I should continue trying to fix current setup or maybe better to look at changing setup.
Maybe just change servo cards and keep controller - not sure if that possible.