Corey,
Your ATC for your mill looks great. Would you share the macro?

Max Porter

Gabriele, To use the turret manually a relay is not necessary, a simple DPDT momentary switch will work. Since you plan to control the turret from your cnc controller in the future, you can use a DPDT relay now. To keep it simple to explain, this would require another DC power supply. Whether you us...

Hi Gabriele, If I understand you correctly, you just want to be able to index the turret manually to the next position with a push button. If this is what you want, it is actually simple and will not require the use of the optical sensors, gray scale code, or macro. You will need a DPDT (dual pole d...

Hi All, I have not been on this forum in a long time. Glad to see how far the toolchange macro has developed. Mine has always worked with the original macro, but I like the feedback added to ensure the toolchange actually happened. I will incorporate it in mine. The logics won't work for me because,...

Hi Everyone, I know this is a very old thread, but it appears that there is some interest as one of the members spent some time tracking me down. I do have a working 8 station turret running on mach 3. It is a denford turret with no changes to the turret or the electric components contained within t...

:lol: I have the turret working flawlessly in MACH3, thanks to help from people on this forum and the mach forum at yahoo. I am controlling it directly from a second parallel port with no modbus! I built my own power supply that provides 24vdc & 12vdc. The dc voltage is then applied to a DPDT Relay,...

Hi Steve, I gave all the info, that the guys on this forum supplied, to Peter Homann of Homann Designs and he seems quite certain he can make it work with Mach 3 and his modIO. He is currently working on it and I expect to hear from him soon. When I do I will post the results on this forum. If you w...

Thanks Bradders! This is exactly what I needed. I should be able to get the toolpost working in Mach 3 now, Thanks to everyone here and Peter Homann.

:D Steve, Thanks for the attachments they were very helpful. Martin, I would appreciate any flow charts or sequence of event info you might dig up. This forum is great! Everyone is very helpful. I know a bit about binary I've done repairs to Fanuc 0T and 18T based hardinge lathes, but I had never he...

Denford Orac Turret working on Mach 3 macro Formerly: I need help with an 8 station Orac Tool Turret I am trying to convert an 8 station Denford Tool Turret to run on mach3. The turret is the type with the small maxon dc gearmotor and 3 optical sensors that read 3 discs for tool position. By the el...