On Fri, 15 Nov 2019 13:48:51 -0800, John Robertson <
sp...@flippers.com>
It's a Fanuc control and as far as I know the control is completely
Fanuc. I don't know anyone who has s Fluke 9010 and even though I know
where Burnaby is it is still a bit of a drive from the south end of
Whidbey Island.
I do have other 2516 EPROMs that are useless to me that I am going
to use to test the reader/programmer. The tech support guy did say
that 2516 devices may not program properly but that they can be read
just fine. Nevertheless I will take your advice. I can use my TEK 465B
scope to check the voltages.
And I read either here or in an email from the tech support folks
that the TI 2516 devices are the same as the 2716 devices and I know
that at least one EPROM is a TI 2516.
There is a mix of devices because it seems that at least two EPROMs
are common to almost every board from Miyano lathes and the other 4 on
the one board are the ones I need to copy.
So as I buy old boards I get, now and then, copies of the two
common types. So these will be tested first along with some other 2516
devices I have from another Fanuc control.
I really appreciate all the advice I get here and especially the
EPROM advice I am getting recently. It really makes me feel better
about repairing this machine.
Speaking of this lathe, I know people who would say just replace
the machine or at least the control. But I have done a complete
control replacement before and it is not trivial. And Fanuc controls
are usually very robust. It is just this one board that is giving me
problems and I can't see how the machine itself could be damaging this
particular board.
I could just replace the machine completely but this is very
expensive and this particular machine is just not getting enough work
at this time to justify at least 60 grand to replace it.
The lathe itself is, the mechanics and the servos, are in great
shape. I can hold .0001" without any problems. All day. Even though
the top spindle speed is only 5000 RPM most of the work I do can't be
done at higher RPM because of the diameter and material of the work.
Eric