Has anyone been successful drip feeding an Anilam Crusader II controller? I have one on a 1985 Lagun knee mill, and recently got it running with the good troubleshooting advice of others on this forum. Now I have a 3000 line program I want to run on it, but I understand that it can only hold a 999 line long program. I'd appreciate any advice about how to make this happen.

Thanks,

Doug Danielson
Atlanta

it is possible but tricky. you need some special mcodes and a servo enable relay that would disable the servos while the exchange of information happens. not easy and messy.
Crusader II is dead !
long live the crus II...

I have some notes on this I could fax to you. If you'd like them, email your fax number to me at psevin at ovationengineering.com

The crusader ii can have 6000+ steps. The step size of the control varies from 2 bits to 13 bits. This means the program size can change.
A program event of one axis is 5 bits and an event with 3 axis move is 13.

Later PC cards had page memory that doubled the events steps you can store. The limit was 9000 events as this was reserved for canned cycle programming. You can see the canned cycle program by searching for event 9000 and stepping. If you are single stepping through a program with canned cycle, in aux 1900 (step by event mode) you will also see the canned cycle stuff.

If you use the subroutines you can usually reduce the program size.

good luck. maybe It will load without a problem
JOHN
jsl@specialmachines.com