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Call Mark at MAG-IAS. He sent me the CMOS update program for my motherboard. The CMOS program will be different per board and from what I understand, there were many.

Cudos to Mark Nichols at MAG IAS. He was a huge help finding the settings for me.

Thanks, Cincinnati (MAG) got back to me today with the parameters. I was pretty close.

Got it working. The aligning forever was because the prox sensor was stuck depressed (open) so the control thought it was never clearing the home switch.

Changed the rotary modulus from 2211840...

I'm getting a little further. Found that the rotary table was set to removed on the pendant.

For future reader reference, while control is powered on and before turning on machine power, go to...

It seems to have the parameters for the 4th axis. Under system config/axis,DV7 port 5 shows some numbers but I don't really know if they are correct or not. MAG (Cincinnati) said they don't have...

I've been using an Arrow 500 with 3 axis for a while and am pretty proficient. Just received a machine with the 4th axis (a2100 control) and a Troyke 6" rotary table. This machine arrived with a...

I pulled the belt this weekend and the motor is much quieter but still there is some sound. I think it is quieter only because there is no mass to cause torque on RPM changes.

We used an...

I was hesitant to try that having heard that removing the belts could loose synchronization with the tool changer for spindle orientation during tool changes and thus require changes inside the VFS5...

Ohh, and I forgot to mention... I had not operated the machine before shipping but it had been in production and according to the owner "it had no problems". I just have to take their word on that...

Thanks Al and Mike...

Motion during alignment is smooth.

Doesn't visually appear that the belt is skipping.

I don't see the fan or feedback externally on the motor. There is a fan on the...

I wouldn't say its a common problem (actually never heard of the Function buttons not working). I have not had any pendant issues personally other than a potentiometer issue on the spindle override.

If you see the messages on the pendent but the F1 does not do the axis align, does F2 do the tool changer align? If both buttons are not working, then there may be a bigger problem.

Do align first. As TickTock said...

1) hit align button on pendant.
2) Now pendant display should show (F1 axis align) and (F2 mechanism align).
3) Assuming #2 shows correct, hold F1 and the...

Just received an Arrow 500 with A2100 that was abused during shipping. Tool changer cover broke off, doors knocked off the rails, hard disk crashed. At first, that is all I thought was wrong but...

It's all fixed. CMOS battery had died in the realtime board. Sucks this causes a bogus error during diagnostics.

To fix:
1. Pull realtime board
2. Hook up on a test bench.
3. For my version...

Received a DV7 today from a Lancer to swap in. According to both MAG and Seimens, it should work fine in the Arrow 500 as long as I add 2 extra jumpers for the unused axis ports.

Unfortunately,...

Earlier this week on my 97 Arrow 500, I started a part program, walked away from the machine for 1/2 hour and when I came back, it had rebooted. Now the diagnostics are complaining that CONV SERVO...