Mazak EIA/ISO

[danparker14]

I have a mazak quick turn 20n lathe with a mazatrol cam t2 control. i am not extremely familiar with mazaks and am trying to figure out how to do converstaional programming at the machine, however it seeems the machine is set to read in g code only. it says EIA/ISO on the screen and i am wondering if anyone knows how to get the control set back up to do conversational programming. ideally i would want to program offline and import g code programs in, but we do not have the software.

[Joe788]

I don't have that control, and I don't use Mazatrol - but on newer Mazak controls, the option to choose Mazatrol or EIA pops up when you start a new program.

 

Program>Work No>(enter new program number)>Input>select Mazatrol or EIA.

 

If that doesn't work, you should be able to get your answer quickly in the Mazak portion of the Practical Machinist forum. Lots of people there with old QTs.

[John_Carpenter]

Dan,

 

There are two ports on that machine. One for reading in ISO (GCODE) and one for reading in Mazatrol. Joe is correct with the information above. If you need to communicate this information in or out of the control you will need software that can communicate using the Mazatrol protocol. not just any off the shelf hyperterminal type comm program will work.

 

Good Luck,

 

John

[JAMMAN]

Uhhh.. beg to differ y'all I'm talking to a mazatrol T2 using a special cable and a v5 or v7 version of cimco. We have one mazatrol program we set tools with, we call it program 99. When you call up the program the controller goes into mazatrol automatically (blue mazatrol). Feed it with a gcode program and it automatically turns red for EIA. I've talked to that controller with a laptop running linux also.

 

I don't remember what I did for the cable but it was a standard 9 to a 25 with a couple pins switched. If you want reply back and I'll dig up as much info as I can.