bigpappy
Aluminum
- Joined
- Feb 6, 2010
- Location
- South Jersey
This may be a total shot in the dark but I'm wondering if it's possible to run the machine after a servo drive has been removed?
My sub-spindle/ live tool drive, FR-SGJ, blew some components quite some time ago, but all of the parts I've been producing haven't needed the live tools or sub-spindle so I went without.
Mitsubishi says they no longer support that drive and I would have to buy a retrofit to the tune of $12k to get up and running again.
I sent it out to CNC Drive Doctors who fixed my main spindle drive some years back with the hopes they could get this one working.
Long story short, they're still working on it and I have a rush job to do over the weekend.
I followed a procedure from Mitsubishi to bypass the drive by moving around some communication cables and setting dip switch 4 on the MC617 card to on.
I'm able to turn the machine on, home everything, jog X and Z axis', run the spindle, and even run a program.
However, I can not open the chuck to change material!!
The tool eye doesn't work either, but I can manually set those.
I've tried M codes for the chuck and the foot pedal, but nothing works.
Any ideas??
Thanks so much in advance!
My sub-spindle/ live tool drive, FR-SGJ, blew some components quite some time ago, but all of the parts I've been producing haven't needed the live tools or sub-spindle so I went without.
Mitsubishi says they no longer support that drive and I would have to buy a retrofit to the tune of $12k to get up and running again.
I sent it out to CNC Drive Doctors who fixed my main spindle drive some years back with the hopes they could get this one working.
Long story short, they're still working on it and I have a rush job to do over the weekend.
I followed a procedure from Mitsubishi to bypass the drive by moving around some communication cables and setting dip switch 4 on the MC617 card to on.
I'm able to turn the machine on, home everything, jog X and Z axis', run the spindle, and even run a program.
However, I can not open the chuck to change material!!
The tool eye doesn't work either, but I can manually set those.
I've tried M codes for the chuck and the foot pedal, but nothing works.
Any ideas??
Thanks so much in advance!