The Digital readout on the series 1 Bridgport mill wouldn't light up this
morning. It's not a power problem, it gets juice all the way to the
internal transformer.
Anyone know of anyone who can diagnose and repair a mid 80s Teledyne-Gurley
"Scout 500", or have a similar DRO that will plug into the old sensors with
3/4 inch round 14 pin plugs?


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On Dec 6, 4:45 pm, "Stupendous Man" wrote:
The Digital readout on the series 1 Bridgport mill wouldn't light up this
morning. It's not a power problem, it gets juice all the way to the
internal transformer.
Anyone know of anyone who can diagnose and repair a mid 80s Teledyne-Gurley
"Scout 500", or have a similar DRO that will plug into the old sensors with
3/4 inch round 14 pin plugs?

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Stupendous Man,
Defender of Freedom, Advocate of Liberty

Mmm, well...if your willing to send it to me in Australia, would be
happy to look at it...

BUT- thats not an option.

To clarify - is it ALL sensor that are dead, ie x.y.z.
if not, try swapping inputs to narrow it down to one sensor.

If all dead - do you have a service manual, or at least a schematic? -
first thing to do would be to check power supply rails....

Andrew vk3bfa

On Wed, 5 Dec 2007 21:45:11 -0800, "Stupendous Man"
wrote:

The Digital readout on the series 1 Bridgport mill wouldn't light up this
morning. It's not a power problem, it gets juice all the way to the
internal transformer.
Anyone know of anyone who can diagnose and repair a mid 80s Teledyne-Gurley
"Scout 500", or have a similar DRO that will plug into the old sensors with
3/4 inch round 14 pin plugs?

You could try these people,

Scott-Baker Co.
14222 Caves Rd
Novelty OH 44072
1-888-501-6799

They were able to get me a NewAll scale and adaptors to make it work
on my obsolete Tri-onics DRO. Maybe they can get a head to work with
your scales.

Thank You,
Randy

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Stupendous Man wrote:
The Digital readout on the series 1 Bridgport mill wouldn't light up this
morning. It's not a power problem, it gets juice all the way to the
internal transformer.
Anyone know of anyone who can diagnose and repair a mid 80s Teledyne-Gurley
"Scout 500", or have a similar DRO that will plug into the old sensors with
3/4 inch round 14 pin plugs?



Here's another place you might try, Linear Measuring Systems. I've
dealt with this company and was happy. He services the now defunct
Sargon products and sells Jenix stuff new. He set me up with a couple
Jenix scales and the adapters to make them work with my old Sargon
display. He seemed quite well versed on other manufacturers also.

http://www.digitalreadoutsystem.com/

Regards
Paul

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On Wed, 5 Dec 2007 21:45:11 -0800, "Stupendous Man"
wrote:

The Digital readout on the series 1 Bridgport mill wouldn't light up this
morning. It's not a power problem, it gets juice all the way to the
internal transformer.
Anyone know of anyone who can diagnose and repair a mid 80s Teledyne-Gurley
"Scout 500", or have a similar DRO that will plug into the old sensors with
3/4 inch round 14 pin plugs?

As has been suggested, it sounds like a power supply problem, which
should be relatively easy to diagnose. The complexity of the power
supply will depend on the type of display devices.

Most (1) DROs use TTL level encoders that are electrically
cross-compatible. Connector and scale resolution compatibility are the
other issues that need to be considered when mixing and matching.

(1) Not all; the Acurite Turnmate and Millmate DROs on my lathe and
mill are exceptions. Most other Acurite systems are TTL level.

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Ned Simmons