Hi Ulf > If you have money for a dmg machine of this new age, maybe emc is not > what you need.
That's what I'm trying to figure out. At present state I do not really know how much EMC might save me, probably 20k EUR. Depending on how difficult the conversion would be this could be worth it or not. I'll certainly lose a lot of nice features of the professional controllers, but mostly features that I don't need. But it would certainly take a few weeks to do the conversion. > The Siemens 810 is fully digital and fitting emc with the other digital > controls would require much rewiring. That's a good point, I have to make sure it's possible to link the digital servo drives to EMC. I didn't think of this problem yet, because I never worked with these new digital servo controllers. Do you have any details on that? > It would be better and simpler to upgrade the 810 to 840. Would be an option indeed, I'll try to figure out how much that would be. > Maybe you should look for a good old machine on ebay? I thought about that, but having the machine under the manufacturer warranty is a good thing. Of course I will lose warranty as soon as starting the conversion, but I could wait for a few month and use the new machine in its original 3+2 set-up at first. See you Flo ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: Show off your parallel programming skills. Enter the Intel(R) Threading Challenge 2010. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-thread-sfd _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
