American Flyer wrote:

Paul,

I'll scan it for you. Do have the 214-009-02 or 214-009-05 board in

your Bandit

(the board in the card rack which has the serial
cable connection)? I have info on both. The -05 board is much more

capable.

Harrison Young

Don't know the answer to that one. I'll try to check today when  I get

back

to the hangar.

Thanks.

Paul Lamar

American Flyer wrote:

Paul,

Did you find out which board you have? As soon as you let me know,
I'll scan the info for that board.

Harrison

Not yet. Tomorrow. Today I went over to MS Tech to get a demo.
Very impressive! Their stuff does all the low level stuff
a Bandit controller can do in terms of stopping the process
and making low level changes on the fly and then resume milling.

The owner Charlie Kong has a Ph.D. in motion control from UCLA.
His cousin has an NC shop and has been using Charlie's stuff for
five years. Charlie had half a dozen old NC tools in his shop that
had been converted.

I saw your inquiry on Charlie's desk. They currently have an ISA board
but will have a new PCI board after the first of the year.
Total cost less tool changer software for motion board and software is
$4,000.

$4000 is a lot of dough. If your mill needs a controller change, EMC is
free, the required PC (PII 400 upwards) cost next to nothing, 30$ for a
second parallel port card, the motors get reused, after adding encoders
(likely cheaper than mucking around with resolver/tacho to encoder
conversion boards), the PSU may be reused if under 80V othewise you need to
built a simple unregulated PSU of around 1 - 1,5Kw (367$ from
http://www.cnckits.com/) . Three gecko G320's cost $350 from
http://www.geckodrive.com/item.htbml?order_id=&item_id=G320. Just leaves a
bit of fiddleing around getting it installed and the limits wired up.
Since you don't have experience with the bandit controller, you won't miss
the features or canned cycles (if any) it has which EMC doesn't support.

If the bandit is serviceable, it may be worth a fair bit of money on ebay.
The production shops often pay big bucks for obsolete controllers to keep
their machines running.

Is the spindle DC or three phase?

Are you on http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO/ yet? There are
real experts on this stuff there.

Mark
wankel.org

Thanks for the tips Mark. I will get on that news group.

I pulled a few cards today and wonder of wonder it has a 6502. I have 
designed at least two 6502 mother boards and I have a bunch of spare chips.
I am also extremely familiar with 6502 assembly language programming.

Harrison, 
The CPU card (slot2 ) had 214 021 07 marked on it with serial number 11515.
The 24 pin software EPROM had /215 10091 marked on it.
The Interpolator card (slot 1) had 21402702C with serial # 802813

I was unable to see any other numbers as it would be dangerous to pull any
of the other boards.

Paul Lamar
 
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