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Some best practices:
With a new topic, start a new email thread. Don't just grab a random message, hit “reply”, and add unrelated contents to the message to start a new thread. That is hard for others to follow.
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On message content:
In short: be nice, concise, and avoid giving offense.
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Re: Emco PC Mill 55
Here is a partial scan of the ACC Retrofit instructions. Sorry about the pour QC.
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Re: Emco PC Mill 55
arjan.dijk
Thanks a lot. I have my ACC without cables, so I need to create those cables myself, looking forward to your manual. Arjan Op di 11 aug. 2020 om 19:40 schreef Joe Y <kasanay@...>:
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Re: Emco PC Mill 55
Hello,
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I have the Installation/ conversion instructions For the MCC. I will see if I c as n get them uploaded later today. I’m also happy to take pictures. Thanks, Kasanay
On Aug 11, 2020, at 6:17 AM, arjan.dijk <arjan.dijk@...> wrote:
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Re: Emco PC Mill 55
arjan.dijk
Welcome to the club. You indeed need a PC with EMCO software (hope you have some licenses). I have the ACC box but I really like to see detail photo's of your cables, because I did not attach it yet. Op di 11 aug. 2020 om 04:44 schreef Joe Y <kasanay@...>:
Hello,
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Re: Emco PC Mill 55
David Rabenius
I had one of these conversions with the ACC electronics. They charged like $ 4,000. for the upgrade. You will need to use the ethernet cable to another PC and have the operating system of choice loaded on the hard drive. What controller plates are installed on the console you received? They offered: Fanuc O, Fanuc 21, Siemens, Heidenhan, EMCOTronic panels. These plates are secured with the knurled thumbscrews. There is a dealer here in North Carolina that may be able to sell you what you need. Dave
On Monday, August 10, 2020, 10:45:00 PM EDT, Joe Y <kasanay@...> wrote:
Hello, I just joined and I don't want to high jack anyone's thread, but this one seems to fit my needs, quite well. I recently hauled a PC Mill 55 home from an auction where it did not sell. It came with the desk, some documentation, some cables, a few floppies. Also big, heavy big keyboard/ control panel. I know next to nothing about CNC. But not going to let that stop me! I have been poking around and have learned a few things about this unit. It has the ACC upgrade installed. I plugged a monitor and keyboard into it and it boots up ! Looks like Linux OS. I understand there was another PC with this (I don't have that). My question is: what do I plug the Ethernet cable into? I'm guessing it's another computer, but what OS do I need? What software do I need (want). Any help on this would be appreciated. Thanks,
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Re: Emco PC Mill 55
Hello,
I just joined and I don't want to high jack anyone's thread, but this one seems to fit my needs, quite well. I recently hauled a PC Mill 55 home from an auction where it did not sell. It came with the desk, some documentation, some cables, a few floppies. Also big, heavy big keyboard/ control panel. I know next to nothing about CNC. But not going to let that stop me! I have been poking around and have learned a few things about this unit. It has the ACC upgrade installed. I plugged a monitor and keyboard into it and it boots up ! Looks like Linux OS. I understand there was another PC with this (I don't have that). My question is: what do I plug the Ethernet cable into? I'm guessing it's another computer, but what OS do I need? What software do I need (want). Any help on this would be appreciated. Thanks,
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Re: VMC-100 central lubrication intervals
atlantis@...
Salut Jacques
Je viens d'installer une minuterie qui est complètement autonome du LinuxCNC et qui met en marche la pompe chaque fois le relais d'arrêt d'urgence est réinitialisé et alors après un délai ajustable. C'est vrai qu'on verra s'il-y-aura trop d'huile dans le réfrigérant, mais il est plus difficile de découvrir trop peu d'huile. Ce week-end j'ai fait l'installation de la pompe et avant j'avais assumé que la quantité d'huile qui est diffusée sera caracterisée par la durée de marche de la pompe. Mais maintenant j'ai découvert qu'il y a des valvules de dosage à la sortie de la pompe qui laissent passer seulement une très petite quantité d'huile qui est indépendante de la durée de marche. La pompe peut marcher 3, 5 ou 8 secondes la quantité ne change pas. Ca m'a surpris mais comme ça il ne faudra au moins pas ce casser la tête sur la durée de marche. Est-ce que tu vas aussi utiliser LinuxCNC ou as-tu d'autres plans? Cordialement Martin
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Re: 3.5 inch floppy drive controller
Hi Dieter,
Thanks for your message. Whatever the circuit is it is not doing anything. 16 Volts appears on the transistor but the transistor is never switched on, I have removed and checked it. I have assumed that the base is fed from the logic on the interface which is in turn triggered by the PIA on the CPU PCB. As I have mentioned the interface card has a lot of components (see photo album) which I am slowly trying to trace what they do and how they are connected. I have now also removed the black capacitor and tested it. The 16 volt supply is directly on its terminals. The 1000 micro farad cap is also OK but the 5 volt supply is not there. I do not know the history of the lathe except that it did have some water damage so the Floppy and interface could have been wet at some point. I will keep trying and hope that somebody somewhere has a schematic. The lathe is otherwise in complete working order now. Keith
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Re: 3.5 inch floppy drive controller
Dieter
Hi Keith,
Your schematic looks like a switching power supply: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_converter Dieter
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Re: 3.5 inch floppy drive controller
Hi All,
I have added another photo to the album. The photo shows a sketch of the 5 Volt supply on the interface board. I believe that the component in my photos marked PJ220 is I think an encapsulated inductor. The component marked PH I think is a zener diode, the full markings are PH37G. My guess is that the 16 volt rail is switched on be the logic through the base of the transistor. The 16 volts is then reduced to 5 Volts by the zener and the inductor act to prevent surges. I cannot find any reference to either the PJ220 inductor or the PH37G components so all this is supposition at this stage. I have trawled the net for interface cards but not found anything remotely similar. Any ideas would be much appreciated. Keith
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Re: VMC-100 central lubrication intervals
FRANCOIS JACQUES
Bonjour Martin je possède aussi une VMC, en cours de rétrofit car la TM02 incomplète est inutilisable, ton idée est simple et acceptable à mon avis. Je pense que commander le graissage en ce basant sur le temps de fonctionnement de la broche (1h,2h?) serait simple à réaliser sans programmation, une commande manuelle (bouton poussoir lumineux) à actionner avant de démarrer un usinage complétera ta modification. Tu verras à l'usage pour optimiser la temporisation, trop d'huile de graissage dans le liquide réfrigérant par exemple. Cordialement. Jacques.
Le mer. 5 août 2020 à 17:18, <atlantis@...> a écrit : Hi
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Re: Windows 98 hard drive help
wild_kow
I have mine installed on a Pentium II. The most important thing is that the computer does not have a built in video port. This causes conflicts which cannot be overcome easily. Look for a computer without the port built in but with the port on a separate plug-in
card. Make sure that is a plain video card without added features. Also make sure the serial port is not doubling as a gaming port.
I spent many hours resolving issues. I bought identical computers for my PC50 mill and PC55 lathe. I got the mill to work but not the lathe, even with the same computer. I bought another almost bare computer for the lathe and that does work.
John W
From: Emco-CNC-Users@groups.io <Emco-CNC-Users@groups.io> on behalf of arjan.dijk via groups.io <arjan.dijk@...>
Sent: 06 August 2020 11:17 To: Emco-CNC-Users@groups.io <Emco-CNC-Users@groups.io> Subject: Re: [Emco-CNC-Users] Windows 98 hard drive help What kind of computer are you trying? It does not seem like the smartest thing to install it on a 486. That will be painfully slow
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Re: Windows 98 hard drive help
arjan.dijk
What kind of computer are you trying? It does not seem like the smartest thing to install it on a 486. That will be painfully slow Op do 6 aug. 2020 om 09:31 schreef Constantine Christophi <conners@...>:
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Re: Windows 98 hard drive help
arjan.dijk
I think the Windows 98 disc is not a real critical boot disk. Just open the ISO in windows and copy the content should be enough. Op wo 5 aug. 2020 om 23:47 schreef Baschwar@ <baschwar@...>:
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Re: Windows 98 hard drive help
hurtisover2011
Hi, I had similar problems so l bought a drive off ebay. CD/DVD drives are widely available and are not expensive, I got mine for £9.99 free p+p. Ed
On Wed, 5 Aug 2020, 20:43 Baschwar@, <baschwar@...> wrote: Can anyone help me get a working Windows98 hard drive set up?
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Re: Windows 98 hard drive help
Hi All,
Windows 98 as far as I can remember came in two parts one floppy disk and one CD. The floppy was the startup disk. I think the later versions Windows 98SE may just have been on CD. The startup disk and the ISO are available on the net. I understand that there is a floppy disk version on Windows 98 which is/was available from MS but was 39 Disks. There seem to be plenty of second hand internal IDE CD readers on various websites. Best of luck, Keith
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Re: Windows 98 hard drive help
Constantine Christophi
I had great difficulty in finding the floppy version of Windows 98, the solution I went with was piggybacking an internal CD ROM drive set to slave on the same IDE cable as the hard drive and installing that way. Another problem I ran into was the minimum system requirements. RAM was easy (just buy some) but with the CPU I had to override the CPU check with commands:
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Re: 3.5 inch floppy drive controller
wild_kow
I downloaded Win95 and 98 from the internet, I can't remember what was required to install them. I think there was a setup.exe file, I don't think I had to create an iso image.
John W
From: Emco-CNC-Users@groups.io <Emco-CNC-Users@groups.io> on behalf of atlantis via groups.io <atlantis@...>
Sent: Thursday, August 6, 2020 8:20:11 AM To: Emco-CNC-Users@groups.io <Emco-CNC-Users@groups.io> Subject: Re: [Emco-CNC-Users] 3.5 inch floppy drive controller Frankly said I have not followed the whole discussion here, just wanted to throw in that there are diskette drive emulators that convert a floppy drive interface into a usb port. If you get it working at all that might add some comfort.
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Re: 3.5 inch floppy drive controller
atlantis@...
Frankly said I have not followed the whole discussion here, just wanted to throw in that there are diskette drive emulators that convert a floppy drive interface into a usb port. If you get it working at all that might add some comfort.
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Re: Windows 98 hard drive help
atlantis@...
I remember installing Windows 95 from a whole bunch of floppy disks back in the day but I don't know if there is still some software available that will create all those floppy disk images from a cd image as there used to be. You may want to find out if you have enough floppy disks, I don't remember exactly how many it took.
I would add two other possiblities to the above list: Install a usb add-on card or an internal cd-rom drive, if the machine has a possibility for either of them they might be easier options. Maybe you could also hook the cd-rom up only temporarily with the machine open for installation. If the machine is pre-usb it should have an ide hard drive interface and to that you should be able to hook up 2 devices per channel normally.
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