It worked !!!! :o You've fixed it!!! :D You have no idea how grateful I am, the numbers I was being quoted to have the board checked out / replaced were truly scary so thank heaven for helpful folk like you who are prepared to communicate with ordinary folk like me. Thank you so much to everyone who...

Thanks Martin. I have just downloaded the files and unzipped them. Do I copy them to the same directory as before using the name Novamill55xx or rename them Novamill? I am just going in to work now, be there in a bout 30mins. Regards Steve.

I was hoping you'd say that!
Away for a couple of days so I won't be able to get back to the machine until Thursday morning now.
I'll keep you posted.

Sadly this did not work.
I could not detect any difference from before the modified files.
Thank you for trying, Martin
Perhaps a replacement board is the only solution.

Thank you my friend.
Fingers crossed!
I will go into work tomorrow and try it out.
I'll report back
Steve

Thanks, Martin, I really appreciate your help.

Hi Martin, I can't believe you posted at nearly 3 in the morning, that is spectacular!!!!!
I will acontact Denford but in the meantime can you talk me through this logic alteration please?
I don't have any previous experience of this sort of thing so be gentle!

Thanks, Steve

Ok, so can it be fixed?

Hello

Can someone reply please?
I'm feeling a bit lonely!!

Regards
Steve

When it locks up try pressing ESCape. Can you then do any other M commands ? ie, start the spindle again with M3 ? Also, try running at 450 RPM then stopping, then try 550RPM and stopping. If 450 works ok and 550 dosn't then it seems that the logic is hanging up waiting to see zero speed from the d...

At 150 rpm it starts and stops & the door guard message works properly
At 1000 rpm the guard lock actuates but when the spindle is stopped it crashes
here is the support me file:
When I tried to send it direct to Denford I got: "Asynchronous socket error 10060"
What does that mean!

Yes, every time.
If I open and close the door without running the spindle the message appears and disappears.
It is 32 bit.
I have tried it on another machine, my laptop has the software on it and it does on that too.

Thanks for your help with this. We have software version: 5.43.0.580 downloaded a couple of days ago. The machine was upgraded around march 2010 to ver: H02130 Easy upgrader reports that the machine is up to date. The problem is this: I can start the spindle and when run at speed it locks the guard ...

Hello, I have come back to my Novamill after about a year to set it up for a repeat machining exercise. The machine homes, jogs, runs a program etc but when it gets to a spindle stop command it times out. It was upgraded march 2010 with all the latest stuff and USB connectivity. Trying to solve this...