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Karl Townsend Karl Townsend is offline
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I'm not sure what vintage it is, but the serial # looks
like a date, as in 1985. If so, I REALLY would advise
against repair if it is more than a blown fuse or loose
connector. If you replace a board, then another board
will die within months. I had a slightly older control
that I hacked onto a manual Bridgeport, and had to do
board-level repairs 3 times in 9 months. I was overjoyed
to become one of the first outside users of EMC back in
1998.

Since this is a servo machine, I would recommend using
LinuxCNC (the new name of EMC2) which is most at home
driving servos.

You may be able to save the servo amps, depending on
the make, some of them are quite reliable.

Jon


1998 huh? That's the year i decided to go Camsoft after switching my
Bandit to Ahha and not liking steppers. I'm suggesting EMC to the kid
as it is SO MUCH more economical. Plus I expect Camsoft to be out of
business in less than ten years.

Now, I REALLY LIKE using Opto 22 brand isolated 24 volt IO and the PCI
bus cards to control them. what are the chance EMC will run this card?
http://tinyurl.com/cjb8ue3

Karl