Paul,
For anyone interested in cnc conversions this site will be able to
direct you to what ever information one might need.
www.cnczone.com
Also if anyone wants to contact me directly I am converting 2 mills and
a lathe. Any controller older than 1990 and cost more than $1500 to fix
should just be upgraded, if one has the time to do it.
Best Regards,
Richard Konnen
You are just the guy I am looking for Richard.
I have a Kasuga with new amps. Everything works except the Bandit.
I want to up grade to a PC based controller with PD real time Linux
source code as a base. Right now I have resolvers but I am willing to buy
all
new encoders. I also have a tool changer. Do you know somebody
that will come out and do it? Free room plus pay and expenses.
Ten minutes from the beach :)
Paul Lamar ...No rotor no motor.
Paul,
There is an opens source Linux CNC control program which is free or very low
cost
as it was developed for the US gov by I think a US university, so all in the
US
have already paid for it}
When you motioned your milling machine in the past I assumed that you were
doing
the conversion yourself and were knowledgeable in this area also, and had
completed it by now.
There are a number of CNC groups which cover the conversion of machines and
the
Software to control them, I have seen the Bandit mentioned in the past as
this
Control has died on other peoples machines or they wanted to update
them,someone
some time ago was offering all the control boards to other members of the
group,
I did remember you mentioning Bandit as that is how I came to know that
control,
not having seen a Bandit here in the UK, the group is CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO,I
think
There are people in the group who do machine conversion as a business, (if
Richard
is not near you,) but I am not sure if they are near you,( not sure where
you are),
but all you have to do is Post the question.
If all your servo amps,encoders and power transformer are working I think
you can
use them, but I cannot remember all the details, if I see anything in my
archive I
Will send it to you.
The machine control software is called EMC and I think it can be down loaded
from
Source forge from memory, I have not saved much on EMC as I am using
stepper's on
my small machine, for a start.
There are also groups for very good CAM software at affordable cost which I
am
sure Richard will know about, you might wish to use what he has decide to
use.
Best wishes
Geoff
Cheshire
England
PS You did not tell me if you found Duxford interesting
Yes Duxford was very interesting. We had a lot of travel planned
so the mill went on the back burner for awhile.
I also got to visit the legendary Emon Hurley in Birmingham.
The hi lite of my trip.
I have it pretty well wired now. Jon Elson
http://jelinux.pico-systems.com has all the hardware for
EMC
http://www.linuxcnc.org/
and we have settled on a linear encoder to use.
http://www.gpi-encoders.com/lininc.htm
Paul Lamar ...No rotor no motor.
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