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We made progress with this, not quite there yet but am posting it here in case it helps anyone else. Padovani is now owned by EMCO and they are kind enough to answer questions. Here we learned our...

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We have a machine with a retrofit (Padovani, I think) Sinumerik 805 control. The boot up screen has turned red and it won't get any further than this. Any ideas please?

Sorry, I know I have posted this several times before. But, we really could use some help. This is going on now for a long time, I start to wonder if I will be buried with this machine. We are...

Hah, problem solved thanks to Siemens. Seems we were given some bad information. We have the control back on, seems the PLC is intact. Hydraulics won't start yet but we had the pump running manually....

Best one I heard for a while, thanks for sharing :) I guess there is truth in the saying that if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys. Had a similar experience with some DIY store idiot and sawing some...

Not too sure about your specific machine, but usually when you program a straight line, the machine takes care of the rest. I'm assuming that the machine is a 2 axis, with indexing chuck... when we...

We bought an old CNC lathe and never got it working. PLC battery has gone, and we had no paper backup with the machine. It's a beast of a machine mechanically speaking, so we would like to keep it....

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Been a good while and we still can't get this thing to power up, I think I can be forgiven for bumping the thread. We have lights on the control panel, the computer just flashes on and goes off. The...

Problem solved, kinda. Posting here should anyone else get the same issue. We stripped the machine table down around the y-axis (this was a pain btw, imperial bolts....). Besides being a bit overdue...

Our Fadal also has this problem, it refuses to accept drill cycles with a start point below z0. Have you tried a datum shift for each hole, so that the point where the last drill stopped is your new...

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Our Fadal has developed a fault after being transported. Not sure if its related to the move or not. The y-axis either searches about a bit, only detectable with a DTI or it lurches about...

Hi all, we bought a 2nd hand CNC lathe and after hooking it up we can't get it to power on. We can only get the control panel to light up, although the screen doesn't come on. The hydraulic unit is...

It's featurecam 2012. I can't upload a drawing,, but even simple things are not possible at the minute. The only features that come out correct are those that lie on the very centre of the product....

Hi, thanks for the reply! To answer the questions -

1) 1996
2) 88HS
3) No... just DNC. I will try this though.
4) No

We continue to grapple this issue, and are finding that errors are...

+1 for configurations, or save as copy... :)

Trying to get the dripfeed up and running using FadalDNC-CNC software. Despite the normal loading of programs being no problem at all, I cant get the machine to get past the few-hundred-lines mark....

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I am trying to make a part using Featurecam, but it gives some crazy results. I tried to upload pictures of this, but apparently I am only allowed 1kb of total images... which is just...

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My machine has a max data rate of 4800, but i think this may be due to the long cable more than the machine itself. We found that adding a 2ms delay after every character in the transmit eliminates...

The file size is 200kb, the free memory, I have no idea how to check this, it has never been an issue before. I thought the machine had something like 4Mb or so. There is only a warm up program that...

This kind of thing has happened to us too, I am sure that if you had asked for a quote, things would have been different. It's like they know the deal is done and they now have a license to print...

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We have a Fadal VMC15XT hooked up to a laptop via the Fadal software. Everything is setup as instructed, baud rates, parity, etc. For small programs it works fine.

We tried an experiment...

Never mind, seems it could be either. Will have to check the serial number with the manufacturer.

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