Haas Mill/MCAM Data Feed

[RazorB]

When we try to "Drip feed" our MCAM files that are larger than the 1MB memory in a Haas Mini Mill, the program will stop before completion. It never seems to stop the same place in the code feed. I would appreciate help from anyone with ideas on how to remedy this problem.

Thanks

Ray

[Brendan P]

First of all, you need to be more specific when you say that it stops.

If you mean that you are getting an "ALARM" then this would help us out to tell us.

I just recently had a similar problem.

I would get a "Buffer Overflow" ALARM,and yes,the machine would not go any further.

IMO, buffer overflow is like trying to shovel too much food down your throat,and you start to choke.And yes I would say that you would stop.

(STOP BREATHING THAT IS!)

Look back a page and you will see that it was covered just last week.

 

I'm not saying that you will find your answer in that particular thread,but I did.

I had to adjust the "Com Port Sliders" back as Matthew states.

This worked for me.

[chico]

I remeber your pain. When we first hooked up our Haas we went through the exact same issue. It turns out it was the pin configuration for the communication cable, how simple, yet difficult to figure out. The machine and computer could communicate, but, kept screwing up when asked to drip feed. I will try to find out our cable pin configuration and machine settings and post it today.

 

Chico

[mikee]

The cableing is always a big problem.

We did a whole setup for dnc from :

http://www.shopfloorautomations.com/

Never had a problem with this setup and we are going 150 ft in cable length on 2 machines, both Haas Mills

 

Mikee