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You will find the HAAS operator interface to be esay to use in comparsion to Fanuc. Especially in the area of serial communication, and program selection.
We run our HAAS machines at maximum baud rate. This is either 115.2 kbaud or 38.4 kbaud depending upon the age of the machine. At 115.2 kbaud we can send and receive about 600,000 bytes per minute.
You should always compose your programs with an Onumber in the line following the first %. Then when you put HAAS in ALL and push the RECV button, then send the program to HAAS the program will load load at the Onumber. Older machines will not accept a 5 digit Onumber.
Unfortunately HAAS does not control hardware handshake to inhibit an incoming serial stream prior to activation of the RECV button. Thus, you must put HAAS into receive before you start the sending of a program to HAAS. On the plus side HAAS does not have a timeout.
With our E232 system you can send as many files as HAAS has space for as fast as HAAS can send or receive data and you can push buttons.
Generally HAAS machine software is fairly free of bugs and runs quite reliably. Support in our area by Gerotech is very good. We can circular mill holes and get good roundness because of the preloaded linear ball ways. Somewhere on our website we have a photo of a circular pocket, and other places photos of various parts machined on HAAS machines.
HAAS is generally a subset of Fanuc and thus limited in that some functions are not available. On the other hand HAAS may have some features that many Fanuc's may not have included. There is not much difference from one HAAS machine to another, but more variation from one Fanuc to another because the individual machine builders customize there Fanuc control.
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