Retrofitting a 1986 Maho MH400E

Nice workmanship there John.

It is not mine, it is a friend of mine. He is designer in a cnc company www.vetasa.gr/en/

I think I have finished the control panel design.




I can't bend parts this big and thick, so I am going up to 3mm steel, and will weld it together. The baseplate is 10mm, to bolt onto the existing arm attachment.


Mark

This weekend I got the touchscreen working:
forum.linuxcnc.org/9-installing-linuxcnc...nding-story?start=10

and designed the clamp blocks to hold the Heidenhain EXE. They are printing now.

Also finished off the drawings of the sheet metal parts to make the new control housing. The DXF's are ready for the Laser.
Mark

Yesterday I cut and installed the cable channel onto the backing plate which carries the PC and Mesa 7i77.




Then started removing unnecessary wiring, such as the ones for the tape reader, the MAHO pendant etc. Terminal block 19x5 was removed. I still need to pull the old CGA cable out of the conduit to the controller, but won't do that before I have the new cable to be pulled through.


I then installed that new relay for drive enable which I called 19K2, and wired it up.

I was also working on installing the 5VDC PSU (6T2) to power the encoders and the 7i77. I'm using a Brother P-touch to label both ends of each wire, and covering the label with heatshrink.


I made a mistake on drawing 8 (see atached update). I called the 5VDC output from PSU (6T2) terminals 300 and 301, but found those those already exist on the MAHO 28X3 as 24V connections, so I had to rename them to 400 and 401. I'll probably add those two terminal blocks to the end of that DIN rail where the 19x5 was removed. Also, I show that little PSU (6T2) connected to 110VAC through terminals 150 and 156. On my terminal block strip, there were no free connections to 156, but there was one free on 151, which is the same 110VAC rail.

Mark

Since the 7i77 has dedicate drive enable switching on the TB 5 connector, there is no point wasting a general I/O pin on that. I changed drawing 26 to move drive enable from the 7i84 onto the 7i77 TB5-1

Per the mesa manual...
Note that the enable outputs are polarized and can be
damaged with reverse polarity. For active high drive enables, ENAN+ should go to the
appropriate positive power supply and ENAN- to the drive enable input. For active low
enable drives, ENAN+ should go the the drive enable and ENAN- to control power ground.

Looks like this relay doesn't switch field power, but rather just switches TB5 pins 1 and 2, so we'll need to run an extra +24V line to the 7i77 TB5-2 to close that circuit.

Please check whether I have this round the right way...


Mark