You man those little surface mount caps? I have no SMT tooling to pull them Hi mate I've taken the liberty of copying your picture and ringing the little devils in red. Not surface mount, easy to remove with moderate skills. They have a polarity and the + side is marked on the board. If the de coup...

Hi. All I can say is what took mine down. The little brown caps are mostly decoupling caps connected from the V rails to ground. They have a limited life and go short. I replaced mine with ones stolen from a 10 base ethernet card and has worked fine for the last 5 years (my board is similar and date...

Check capacitors? How old is board? I had two go dead short, tiny decoupling caps from V to ground.

Tom

Don't want to distract your train of thought but ... the caps will be at about end of life, check the capacitors, they go open circuit when they degrade, especially the decoupling caps, dead short. I've had two go.

Tom

Denford Admin wrote:Hi, .exe files are blocked by most browsers and virus checkers so you just need to .zip them up...

Thanks for sharing!

Hi Mr Admin

Yes of course, I seem to be getting thicker as I get older!

Thanks for zipping up and posting.

Tom

Hi Wrote this years ago but recently updated. Old version crashed at 255 lines or more. This version should be safe up to 32767 lines although the general feeling is that Starturns will accept up to 480 lines unless you know better! It's main purpose is to produce text files of sta files for backup ...

Hi This looks like a STE bus version of a very early Euroserver card. I have two similar cards that are now about 25 yrs old, quite reliable in my experience. Following error can be either a drive fault or this card. The only issue I ever had with them are the decoupling caps. Mines a different layo...

HI TOM, MANY THANKS FOR YOUR REPLY, WE HAVE A GUY WHO FIXES OUR CNC FANUC MACHINES HE SAYS THE VOLTAGES ARE ON THE CARD AND THE POWER SUPPLY WORKS BECAUSE THE 386 COMPUTER BOOTS UP. HE CANNOT DO ANYMORE ON IT WITH US BECAUSE HE IS AT A LOSS NOW AS TO WHAT TO DO WE MAY OR MAY NOT BE ELECTRONICALLY A...

Appartently it's identical to a HARRISON TU150U? Have you tried them?

Tom

Ok, you missed out the c3MINT bit, very important! c3MINT2.53d/STE-KC16-JD7 means: c3: three axis MINT 2.53d is an early version of MINT with a bug fix (d) (NOT Mint 328 which is different, a drip feed from a PC) STE: means it's an STE busd version KC-16 means it's a non standard processor that usua...

Hi I removed the file as the thread seemed dead. I put it back on: https://homepage.ntlworld.com/tombayes/public/eurosystem/euroservo.pdf Agree with Denford. Pretty sure this card should have all segments lit "8" if all OK. An "L" indicates it is on a limit switch but still OK. The pin outs are on p...

Hi. Does this help, on some cards the outputs are reassigned?

Tom

Earlier link now points to the right reference manual! I think this is a Euroserver (ki, kv, kf and gain all MINT servo stuff) but on a custom card with an STE bus. Pin outs on the connector to the back plane are in the manual. The LED should light L or 8 (if not on a limit). Check all the power con...

Studying earlier posts! By the config file it's a servo system, they are MINT servo commands. Installs RS232 driver, tries to communitcate.... fails. I need to know if the card is alive as this could very simply be a rs232 problem? lead, hardware? What do you normally get on the LED when you boot up...

Hi. I have some experience with the older Baldor cards. I think this though pre dates even the Eurostepper Card. What exactly is written on the eprom? This will help me identify what it is. If it's a eurostepper, here is the reference manual, ignore the programming stuff, but shows the layout and al...

Very late on this post! Try this...
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Tom

That's good, hope it's of use to someone. My mate used it to transfer and backup the files he had and also to take code produced by his windows CAM system, on to the starturn. We rigged up a simple network to make things easier. It's written in Delphi 7 (Pascal). The .pas files are quite readable on...

Should add, alist.txt is a list of g / m codes I believe the Starturn understands?
Tom

Hi Starturn users I wrote this windows program for a mate some years ago. Basically it converts .sta files to text format, and will read txt files (which are in the correct format) and convert them to .sta and optionally write the .sts. He had no problems. I have only verified it on the Starturn Dos...