Mazak Vqc - 15/40 lost parameters????

Good afternoon my Fellow machine people.

Can anyone help me bring this machine back to life???

I have returned to work for a small engineering company I've previously worked for on a couple of occasions. They have a Mazak VQC-15/40 machining centre with Mazatrol Cam-2 control, which has not been used since I last worked for them some 2 years ago. Due to the lack of maintenance like most small firms they haven't changed the batteries and when I powered it up, it looks to me the machine has lost its parameters?

After finding a post online I located 2 batteries in the back one on board FX784-8 and one on FX727, the post said there should be a FX784-9 too but this board is missing, am guessing that's for a 4 Axis which this machine hasn't got installed?

I went ahead and replaced these batteries but it wont let me do anything else with the machine now.

Can anyone advise where to begin getting this machine running again, I do have a floppy disk with parameters back up on but have no way of transferring them over yet.

What would be the first step????


Thanks in advance for advise.

Ive attached some pictures of the machines current state.

HI Sudsy55

I will try and locate this third board you speak about, can you email the re-initializing procedure please I can not find anything on the forum.

my email address is [email protected]

Thanks in advance

Can you also advise how to get the hidden parameters up on this control my f3 key doesn't seem to be working.

thanks