Originally Posted by
warrenb
Howdy Y'all
I have an old Bridgeport Series 1 CNC that had a 1999 Centroid retrofit. Recently the board stopped recognizing one of the limit switches. The limit switch is good but it doesn't make it to the control to saw it is homed. Centroid wants $750 to troubleshoot and repair. Being that it is nearly 20 years old, doesn't DNC, and still runs on a floppy I am going to upgrade the entire controller.
Has anyone ever bought the M-15 CNC control trade-in to M39S upgrade kit. It is advertised at $5350 on their website for a plug and play system. Other options I have thought of are a Weihong controller with new AC motors for roughly the same cost. Money is not as important as is time since I have a bunch of projects to get finished.
As old as the machine is it's in decent shape and I have thousands of dollars of tooling that was hard to come by and it is the perfect size machine to stick in a corner for secondary operations once parts come off my large CNCs.
Thanks for any insights