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built this CNC Lathe Maintenance trainer for CNC maintennace short course.

This is a training machine I built for students running on mach3. Replacing the controller to oak amd servo motors compatible with oak, is it feasible to upgrade this machine with cnc12 and Oak?

Thanks.

Hi!

Got a VMC300 and trun 450 from emco and it uses simo drive 611, thinking of using oak controller. Reading on this thread made it seems to work, however having all the work related to it, would it be better to replace the servo drivers and motors?

thanks...

I don't have oak yet, so I dont ...

Hi Marty, as of now some students are helping the trainers assigned in retrofitting as part of their training in mechatronics course. This year I am planning to offer a Basic CNC maintenance course and start with Centroid Acorn as the controller. We do not have this course in our country so I think ...

Hi Marty,

Yup I was able to reuse (saves lot of money) the original axis drives and motors. Also thanks for your help before specially in the tool changer for lathe 55.. I am from the philippines.. We have around 112 of these machine lathe and mill scattered to six of our regions. All machines are ...

Still have plenty of machines to retrofit early next year. These machines are used for training

As for now, I replaced the spindle head of the mill 125 by the mill 55 spindle head and using a generic 1hp vfd.

Hi everyone!
Cheers!

We were able to retrofit our Emco PC Mill 55 and Turn 55 thanks to this forum.

Now I am switching to retrofit our Emco PC Mill 125 and Turn 125. I was able to utilizes the original axis drivers and components like power supply.

I am at end yet again with the original emco ...

The direction signal are reversed in connection. Try it out.

mdhubilla,

If you were able to post the connection pinouts going into the EMCO pc55 mill servo driver card when the system crashed it took that away.
When you have time please post again.
THANKS


Hello,

sorry for the delay , here are the pinouts. please see attached pictures.
The pinouts ...