Hi jon.
Your in luck.
Im pretty sure this would mean you have a 1400-5 cpu in all of the machines!!!
I believe the -5 cpu and software was first introduced and marketed as "sys 99" It is running on a -386 processor.
This means you will have the advanced feed forward options, which may be helpful if you are doing any highspeed machining and wish to update serve tuning on the fly from program input.
BTW: the cpu resides in slot #5 in the main cage. If you power down the machine and remove the bar that secures the cards in the 1060-xx mother board, then carefully pull off the small buss connnector (pn1730-4), you can then pull the cpu card from the motherboard and read the cpu and eprom revision levels.
I would suggest you use standard anti static precautions and make sure you have the shop owner or foremans permission before poking around in the cabinets as these cards are fairly expensive to replace.
There will be one or two daughter cards on the 1400-xx cpu. It will always have a 1610 -1 card , which has the eproms containing the operating system. It is about 2 x 4 inches rectangular and has six eproms on it. If you update the operating system, this is the sub card that gets replaced.
If the control has extended memory, there will also be a 1460-xx card attached to the 1400-x This is a long skinny bugger and is a little bit fragile. I would suggest not removing this unless there is clearly a good reason to do so.
At any rate, Fadal has an exchange program where they update free of charge the operating system eproms 1610 card through exchange.
I would suggest contacting Fadal because I am pretty sure the 96.1 eprom is obsolete. The latest revision we have in our machine with the -5 cpu is sys 102.1 40 02 There may be a later version available, I have not checked in a while. There may be some minor differances in the operator interface between the various software levels and this could cause confusion to any new operator if he is required to operate several of the machines where a different software level is installed on some of them.
Jon, It is unclear to me why you would have such a keen interest in details regarding the cpu and software level on the Fadal when it seems from reading some of your other posts your time may be better managed in becoming more familiar with operating the controller keyboard and becoming aquainted with the various menu provided ???
Ben  |