Re:Hardinge CHNC 1 Lathe

Finally making some progress with the conversion. Most of the interface card area has been re-wired and the phase converter has been installed.

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Next to get the power section under control and on to installing the computer and Mesa cards and then time to make some chips

John

I have finally made some progress. The PC and Mesa cards and the hard drive are installed.

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John

I've been pulling my hair out for a couple of weeks trying to get a computer up and running for the hardinge.

I finally got a new enough mobo that worked and to my surprise the LiveCD would not install because the mobo was too new. So I installed Ubuntu 8.04.4 then EMC 2.4. Everything must work now right... nope now Hostmot2 can't/won't initialize the 5i20. I reverted back to 2.3.4 and tried the 5i20 config and no luck. So I'm back at 2.4 pre. When I try and run the 5i20 config the DONE led stays red, the INIT led blinks off and the STATUS led blinks on yellow while the INIT led is off, then the INIT returns back to a steady red.

The EMC error window
pastebin.ca/1804770

The dmesg
www.pastebin.ca/1804784

Any Ideas?

Thanks
John

I figured it out the card is toast. I swapped it with my plasma cutter to verify... I guess I'll be ordering a new one Monday.

John

And perhaps not, Peter suggested that the EEPROM might need to be flashed. As soon as I can get a computer with a floppy to work I'll try and flash it. Anyhow progress is being made as I stole the 5i20 from the plasma cutter. I figured out real quick that all the outputs on the 7i37 needed to be inverted to be off when set to 0. I was able to reach in and give the X axis a spin and see the DRO had moved so that is going well.

John

Hooked up the MPG and a few other things today. Worked several hours the other night on my feed override switch to get the binary output correct only to find that I can't use that with EMC

Hooked up the MPG to the 7i33 card encoder input then set the jumper to TTL. In my hal file I send the count pulses to the axis.n.jog-counts for both axis. Then the enable bit can be set to none, X , Z or both for chamfers via a radio button until I get time to install a proper switch near the MPG.

Maybe some photos this afternoon.

JT