Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Need help with Tree CNC mill

Steve Smith wrote:

> Thanks much for the response.
>
> The machine is a Journeyman 200. It is probably early 80's.
>
> When powered up, we get the following on the display/keyboard box:
> Run Program -- zeroes
> Control Ready -- zeroes
> Block number -- 0700
> Reset, clear, accept keys do nothing.
> With edit on, there is no response to the keyboard.

Without knowing a whole lot about this control, it sounds
like the executive program needs to be loaded into the CNC
computer. Does this machine have a memory backup battery?
IF so, then no doubt the battery ran down and the contents of memory
were lost. (It doesn't have a cassette tape drive or something like
that in it, does it?)

I was in the same situation when I got an Allen Bradley control
a while ago. I had to get a copy of an executive paper tape from
somebody who worked on them. Ahh, the internet is wonderful
for things like that.

And yes, the manuals are really important. I would not have bought that
A-B control without them.

Jon