Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Need Help!! Dyna 2400

Hi Hugh:
This sounds like a job for one of the excellent aftermarket suppliers on
this list.
I've been hearing good things about Mariss' Geckodrive stuff, among others.
Check back through the listings: this topic has been dealt with before.
From what I remember, it seems to have been pretty straightforward.
Cheers

Marcus
-----Original Message-----
From: Hugh Currin <currinh@...>
To: CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com <CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Sunday, February 04, 2001 11:08 AM
Subject: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Need Help!! Dyna 2400

>Elliot:
>

>I am interested in hearing of your progress, we have one of these Dyna 2400
>at Oregon Institute of Technology where I work. It's not working and we'd
>like to bring it back to life.
>
>As I understand it, which could be very wrong, MasterCAM generates G-Code
>which is not the conversational code the Dyna understands. We also have a
>larger Dyna 4xxx (?), not table top, which is running. For it we use a
>conversion program running on a PC which takes G-Code in and ouputs Dyna
>code which is downloaded via serial port (?) to the Dyna 4xxx. This is a
>pain so we've purchased a new controller for the larger Dyna which
>understands G-Code although we haven't had time to take the Dyna off line
>and retrofit it.
>
>
>I think we'll try to, or get the electronic tech to, figure out how to
>patch into the stepper drivers while bypassing the Dyna 2400
>controller. If we can't I think we'll get new stepper drivers. Either way
>we'll bring up EMC on a P100 and use this to drive the 2400. It would be
>far better than the Dyna controller and EMC understands G-Code.
>Thanks.
>
>Hugh Currin
>Klamath Falls, OR
>