Re: [Emc-users] OT: Anilam Crusader M Documentation
After all the replies yesterday, I realized that our control is a Anilam GX-M, not the regular M series. Apperently these were very uncommon, even better yet :) Looking over the documentation everyone supplied though definitely helps me out though, I did get the machine moving late yesterday though, it wouldn't fire up be cause it was sitting on one of the Y axis over-travel switches, I cranked it off the switch, and it came to life, now to just get the spindle going, and we should be good. Thanks Rick -- Thanks Rick Lair Superior Roll Turning LLC 399 East Center Street Petersburg MI, 49270 PH: 734-279-1831 FAX: 734-279-1166 www.superiorroll.com -- Don't Limit Your Business. Reach for the Cloud. GigeNET's Cloud Solutions provide you with the tools and support that you need to offload your IT needs and focus on growing your business. Configured For All Businesses. Start Your Cloud Today. https://www.gigenetcloud.com/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
[Emc-users] OT: Anilam Crusader M Documentation
Hello Guys, I have seen random posts about converting Anilam controls over to Linuxcnc, We just acquired a small vertical mill that has an Anilam Crusader M control on it, with zero documentation. The person we bought it off said everything worked, but had to get a few of the boards freshened up, and I now I have the control powered up, I just don't know where to go from here to get the servos moving. I was wondering if anyone had any literature on one of these controls, and if so, could I please take a look at it, to try to at least get it moving to see where I go from there, as to whether I put Linuxcnc on it, or get rid of it. -- Thanks Rick Lair Superior Roll Turning LLC 399 East Center Street Petersburg MI, 49270 PH: 734-279-1831 FAX: 734-279-1166 www.superiorroll.com -- Don't Limit Your Business. Reach for the Cloud. GigeNET's Cloud Solutions provide you with the tools and support that you need to offload your IT needs and focus on growing your business. Configured For All Businesses. Start Your Cloud Today. https://www.gigenetcloud.com/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] OT: Anilam Crusader M Documentation
On Tuesday 30 June 2015 12:49:48 Mark Johnsen wrote: Rick, I have what you need. I just uploaded a zip file to my website and the following links should download the files if you paste them in browser. Let me know if they don't work, they did for me. http://www.ijohnsen.com/CrusaderM_Docs_All.zip http://www.ijohnsen.com/Supermax_YCM-16VS_Manual.pdf In the zip file above, the files of interest are: Cursader_M_3X_Programming.pdf (programming manual) Aux Codes 001.pdf (I apparently thought the aux code docs were important at one point) AUX CODES.pdf DNC 001.pdf. (for drip feeding if you want to do that). I do have a paper copy of the programming manual that is many many pages. I obviously don't need it anymore, so if you wanted to pay for shipping, I could send it out. Further, just this weekend I was taking pictures of all the circuit boards and control box and plan to put those on ebay when I get the chance. The zip file also has schematics and west amp servo info. The reason for my retrofit was that the monitor became intermittent and didn't work well at all. I wasn't sure if it was the monitor or something else (like noisy power from my 3ph converter). After contacting a company in Wisconsin (I think outside of Janesville), they thought the problem was a video chip and they wanted $500 to fix it and re-solder something?? After looking at the boards this past weekend, I was thinking it might not have been that hard, however I don't know what I don't know... It probably isn't, the usual problem with monitiors is high ESR in the power supply and related capacitors. You need an ESR measuring meter to verify, about a $200 bill for the one I am familiar with, called a Capacitor Wizard by its maker. $20-$40 for replacement caps, and the meter, is still cheaper than $500 to some guy who probably never saw a CET test. I am one of those critters. One question that I have to ask you to check if you get it running, is can you check to see what kind of 'dead-reckoning' you get between linear scale encoder counts? To try to describe dead-reckoning (PCW Term) it is the control system hunting between two encoder 'marks' on the linear scales when an axis is at rest. We see it because the linear scales are relatively coarse at 0.01mm spacing. I recall having a little bit of an issue w/ thnat w/ the Crusader M, but more of an issue w/ LinuxCNC. It's probably my tuning and I did take Chris Radek's advice and go more liberally w/ the gain on the west amp drive and now I experience times of little dead-reckoning and times of a lot of dead-reckoning. A solution is a fine resolution rotary encoder on the leadscrew... Good luck, Mark -- Message: 2 Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2015 10:49:17 -0400 From: Rick Lair r...@superiorroll.com Subject: [Emc-users] OT: Anilam Crusader M Documentation To: Emc Users emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: 5592ac6d.9010...@superiorroll.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Hello Guys, I have seen random posts about converting Anilam controls over to Linuxcnc, We just acquired a small vertical mill that has an Anilam Crusader M control on it, with zero documentation. The person we bought it off said everything worked, but had to get a few of the boards freshened up, and I now I have the control powered up, I just don't know where to go from here to get the servos moving. I was wondering if anyone had any literature on one of these controls, and if so, could I please take a look at it, to try to at least get it moving to see where I go from there, as to whether I put Linuxcnc on it, or get rid of it. -- Thanks Rick Lair Superior Roll Turning LLC 399 East Center Street Petersburg MI, 49270 PH: 734-279-1831 FAX: 734-279-1166 www.superiorroll.com -- Don't Limit Your Business. Reach for the Cloud. GigeNET's Cloud Solutions provide you with the tools and support that you need to offload your IT needs and focus on growing your business. Configured For All Businesses. Start Your Cloud Today. https://www.gigenetcloud.com/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users Cheers, Gene Heskett -- There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene -- Don't Limit Your Business. Reach for the Cloud. GigeNET's Cloud Solutions provide you with the tools and support that you need to offload your IT needs and focus on growing your business. Configured For All Businesses. Start Your Cloud Today. https
[Emc-users] OT: Anilam Crusader M Documentation
Rick, I have what you need. I just uploaded a zip file to my website and the following links should download the files if you paste them in browser. Let me know if they don't work, they did for me. http://www.ijohnsen.com/CrusaderM_Docs_All.zip http://www.ijohnsen.com/Supermax_YCM-16VS_Manual.pdf In the zip file above, the files of interest are: Cursader_M_3X_Programming.pdf (programming manual) Aux Codes 001.pdf (I apparently thought the aux code docs were important at one point) AUX CODES.pdf DNC 001.pdf. (for drip feeding if you want to do that). I do have a paper copy of the programming manual that is many many pages. I obviously don't need it anymore, so if you wanted to pay for shipping, I could send it out. Further, just this weekend I was taking pictures of all the circuit boards and control box and plan to put those on ebay when I get the chance. The zip file also has schematics and west amp servo info. The reason for my retrofit was that the monitor became intermittent and didn't work well at all. I wasn't sure if it was the monitor or something else (like noisy power from my 3ph converter). After contacting a company in Wisconsin (I think outside of Janesville), they thought the problem was a video chip and they wanted $500 to fix it and re-solder something?? After looking at the boards this past weekend, I was thinking it might not have been that hard, however I don't know what I don't know... One question that I have to ask you to check if you get it running, is can you check to see what kind of 'dead-reckoning' you get between linear scale encoder counts? To try to describe dead-reckoning (PCW Term) it is the control system hunting between two encoder 'marks' on the linear scales when an axis is at rest. We see it because the linear scales are relatively coarse at 0.01mm spacing. I recall having a little bit of an issue w/ thnat w/ the Crusader M, but more of an issue w/ LinuxCNC. It's probably my tuning and I did take Chris Radek's advice and go more liberally w/ the gain on the west amp drive and now I experience times of little dead-reckoning and times of a lot of dead-reckoning. A solution is a fine resolution rotary encoder on the leadscrew... Good luck, Mark -- Message: 2 Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2015 10:49:17 -0400 From: Rick Lair r...@superiorroll.com Subject: [Emc-users] OT: Anilam Crusader M Documentation To: Emc Users emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: 5592ac6d.9010...@superiorroll.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Hello Guys, I have seen random posts about converting Anilam controls over to Linuxcnc, We just acquired a small vertical mill that has an Anilam Crusader M control on it, with zero documentation. The person we bought it off said everything worked, but had to get a few of the boards freshened up, and I now I have the control powered up, I just don't know where to go from here to get the servos moving. I was wondering if anyone had any literature on one of these controls, and if so, could I please take a look at it, to try to at least get it moving to see where I go from there, as to whether I put Linuxcnc on it, or get rid of it. -- Thanks Rick Lair Superior Roll Turning LLC 399 East Center Street Petersburg MI, 49270 PH: 734-279-1831 FAX: 734-279-1166 www.superiorroll.com -- Don't Limit Your Business. Reach for the Cloud. GigeNET's Cloud Solutions provide you with the tools and support that you need to offload your IT needs and focus on growing your business. Configured For All Businesses. Start Your Cloud Today. https://www.gigenetcloud.com/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] OT: Anilam Crusader M Documentation
On 6/30/2015 11:19 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Tuesday 30 June 2015 12:49:48 Mark Johnsen wrote: Rick, The reason for my retrofit was that the monitor became intermittent and didn't work well at all. I wasn't sure if it was the monitor or something else (like noisy power from my 3ph converter). After contacting a company in Wisconsin (I think outside of Janesville), they thought the problem was a video chip and they wanted $500 to fix it and re-solder something?? After looking at the boards this past weekend, I was thinking it might not have been that hard, however I don't know what I don't know... It probably isn't, the usual problem with monitiors is high ESR in the power supply and related capacitors. You need an ESR measuring meter to verify, about a $200 bill for the one I am familiar with, called a Capacitor Wizard by its maker. $20-$40 for replacement caps, and the meter, is still cheaper than $500 to some guy who probably never saw a CET test. I am one of those critters. On my mill it was because the monitor literally exploded. The end of the CRT neck was blown off and there were burned and blown up parts on its circuit board. So I got a mill for a decent price which became pretty close to free after selling off all the old electrics and all the un-needed manual parts in the head. --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus -- Don't Limit Your Business. Reach for the Cloud. GigeNET's Cloud Solutions provide you with the tools and support that you need to offload your IT needs and focus on growing your business. Configured For All Businesses. Start Your Cloud Today. https://www.gigenetcloud.com/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] OT: Anilam Crusader M Documentation
On 6/30/2015 8:49 AM, Rick Lair wrote: Hello Guys, I have seen random posts about converting Anilam controls over to Linuxcnc, We just acquired a small vertical mill that has an Anilam Crusader M control on it, with zero documentation. The person we bought it off said everything worked, but had to get a few of the boards freshened up, and I now I have the control powered up, I just don't know where to go from here to get the servos moving. I was wondering if anyone had any literature on one of these controls, and if so, could I please take a look at it, to try to at least get it moving to see where I go from there, as to whether I put Linuxcnc on it, or get rid of it. When they're working, they work. There's a few videos on youtube of mills with the Crusader M system. They appear to be pretty slow. Another issue is high pitched noises if the driver boards aren't adjusted just right. When they don't work, they can be very expensive to put back to original. Surprisingly, the two driver boards I had were the hardest parts to sell on eBay - despite a price well below any other on eBay or anywhere else online. You can connect a PC to the RS232 port to 'drip feed' G-code to it in order to work around the small memory or if the micro tape drive is bad. Some have bypassed or removed the Anilam computer and connected an upgraded system to the original driver boards. The control panel in the monitor box connects via RS232C so it could be made to work as input for a PC control. Run it off a Mini-ITX or Beagle Bone Black and there will be plenty of room in the huge box for other things. Perhaps a mini fridge... --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus -- Don't Limit Your Business. Reach for the Cloud. GigeNET's Cloud Solutions provide you with the tools and support that you need to offload your IT needs and focus on growing your business. Configured For All Businesses. Start Your Cloud Today. https://www.gigenetcloud.com/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
