Brother TC-225 / TC-229 adventure!

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It's happening again....

Haha. looking at a few new brother options, Including getting my old tc229 back. Not decided on which is the best idea.

Brother like from same parents or Brother like another machine?

Brother like this entire thread has been about?



There are a few candidates. Working out which one makes the most "sense" and "cents". I don't want a long project this time. I want a machine that I can get into production quickly. Thanks to a lot of you guys here, converting certain brother machines is now a "few days" proposition, not months or years.

The alt is to pay a lot more for something newer, but... money.

So, anyone with a 211, 215, 217, 218 able to tell me what the servo motor frame sizes are? And shafts if possible.

Thanks

 Hi everyone.

I live in France.
I entirely read this thread 1 year ago, and I'm reading it again for now.

I've just received in my barn a TC225, which in good conditions, just a little bit of rust (It has been sotcked outside for several months).

I've got an old PC, which is ready to receive Debian and LinuxCNC (Old Sempron 1.3Ghz, 8 Go RAM, Upgraded graphic card for LinuxCNC : Quadro K2200, and 480Go SSD, will it be enough ?)

The goal is to make the TC-225 come to life again, without spending so much money (that I don't have...), so keeping the old Sanyo Denki servos and driver's card, but I didn't find any info (even on this thread) about the way to connect them to 7i77 (there are large connectors for each axis coming from the Brother MB). Which wires are the step, dir, 0, 5 or 10V, I don't know...

I still need to order the Mesa Combo (7i77+5i25).

I have to precise that I'm not very skilled into electonics, newbie with Linux and LinuxCNC, python, and o-code...

But i'm a former 5 axis machinist and programmer (Haas, Mazak, Fanuc, Mori Seiki).

1st question : Does anyone know where to find the complete Electrical diagramms for the TC225 ?

Thanks by advance.