Re: Program to download to lathe, Telix + Orac

Hi John,
I too would like to know what you find that works.
I thought there was some weird timing or pause, or EOL, needed
between sening lines for Fanuc controls when sending RS232.

A while back (8 years), I made a NULL modem cable for a guy and
couldnt get it to work with his Fanuc control ( I didnt really know
anything about the Fanuc at that time, just how to make PC's talk).
I tried hyperterm and Tellix etc. Tellix had lots of setting, and I
probably had something missing in the setup.

Later he purchased some program(?) specifically for communicating
with CNC controls, and it( the same cable) worked fine.

I had this problem with 2 different machines and chalked it up to
some weird RS232/async protocol requirement of these controllers.

Hope someone can answer this...

-Lee

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@y..., "John" <johnhe-uk@s...> wrote:
> I downloaded Telix and it looks great. I went out this morning to
have a
> muck about on the lathe and try to get it talking. Set it to 2400
baud, set
> up the transfer program correctly for 8 bits, 2400 baud, no parity,
X on / X
> off and set to Com 1. I connected the lathe to the Com 1 mouse port
via the
> null modem to it's RS232C. Hyperterminal didn't have any luck
sending the
> GCode file over. I then tried Telix. Telix offered me numerous
protocols to