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DYNAGOD:
its a AJV-25/404 with a mazatrol M32 B1 controller.
proboly circa "89"
the procedure from mitsubishi automation involved using the HD drive, not the PLC so i wanted to stick to the directions.
i have the master disk that the machine came with, but the machine has had multiple maintenance operations done to it over the years and no one knows if those changes were ever reflected on to the master disk. in fact im quite certain they never were, cause no one knew the thing even had a floppy in it except me..
so it stood to reason to keep the original disk stock and to make current backups of the present configuration.
the battery warning has been on for some time, and i personally feel its just an "idiot light" situation,but we havent shut the machine off in over a year because of it.
:P
plus i really dont want to have to MDA 20-30 pages of hexidecimal parameters./
ive had to do that before with our VTC-16 and it was not fun.. make just one mistake somewhere :o
fredster:
Can't Mazak in Kentucky help you with that?
An M32 is a fairly common controller. If I remember, they have the serial cable that comes up standard on boot too. If you change the parameters to add new features you have to buy them like a fanuc. They keep a record of that. Unless you have one of those wonderful people that know the parameters... That floppy would bring it up.
You can download the current parameters too. I had one with the palletec system on a horizontal boring mill and we did that all the time. That way you can load the boot disks and then the saved programs and parameters.
Mazak was one of the better vendors for phone service too.
But their documentation was written by the Japaneese and then translated into english by somebody in India and it was printed in Mexico.
But, it's nothing money can't fix. ;)
DYNAGOD:
oh absolutely, the problem is the boss doesnt want to pay to fix it.. ::)
its paid for you know..