So yesterday we are 95% done milling a stainless steel part that we started on Saturday. That’s right, 84 hours to get through one program. (Owner didn’t want to use a rougher) While the machine was doing its thing another piece of equipment in the shop blew the main breaker and the shop went dark. After turning everything off including the Haas, we reset the breaker. When rebooting the Haas, we get the standard first screen, then the second. Something like “welcome to your new milling experience”. At the bottom right hand corner we see the “alarm” indicator and from there it just seems to be locked up. Pushing the ALARM MESGS button I hear the keyboard beep but nothing happens. I can do a hard restart while holding the PRGRM CONVRS button and that typical screen comes up and I get a blinking dos prompt. Because of this I’m thinking I have eliminated a bad processor from the equation. I have past experience with our HFO tech guys on a couple of other issues and have little respect for the debugging abilities so I’m trying to solve this on my own. Even if I considered re-installing the software couldn’t get to my presets screen to write them down on paper so that option seems to be out. We have checked all the fuses/breakers and have a good 12 and 5 volt power supply to the processor stack.
UGH! I’m at a real loss as to what to try next. Any help would be so greatly appreciated!!!