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Jon Elson[_3_]

wrote:

Greetings Jon,
I contacted Al and he says that he has few Fanuc schematics. But it
was a good try so thanks anyway.
Eric
Well, maybe NOBODY has Fanuc schematics, then. Al has sent me a
bunch of scanned excerpts from manuals, but they were mostly cable
connection diagrams and cross references of encoder models.
Maybe I just got very lucky that some of what I needed, he happened
to have. Back in the OOOLLLD days, all Fanuc controls came with a complete
schematic set. But, that was maybe for 1982-vintage controls with
80186 CPUs. The newer the gear, the more secretive they became.
I reverse-engineered the protocol on their serial encoders, with a little
help from Al and a lot from lucky eBay buys of encoders. But, just
about NO help from Fanuc. I hope you fare better.

Jon