Boss3 won't move inMDI

[Kevin Taylor]

Got My Boss3 powered up tonight after getting transformer to knock 230v down to 208v can get spindel to run with manual switch but the control pendent is unresponsive display shows 007 cant jog in setup cant get any responce Will have the rest of my manual's soon cant find much in the programing manual all fuses check ok fan's running but no axis movment Anybody's help would be great Thank's Kevin

[HillBilly]

Kevin,

Thanks to a customer of my BOB I now have directions for the BOSS 3 conversion. Just letting you know of this option.

Darek

[sdeering]

Is this the first time you are hooking it up?
If the input voltage was different before, you will have to move wires on the main transformer and the samaller one feeding 110 to the computer.
Hope this helps.
Stephen

[Kevin Taylor]

Steven The machine was 208v so I used a external transformer to step it down to 208 from my 230v I dont yet have an instalation manual to check anything else unless you could point me to the transformer I need to check I have power at the regulated power supply in the righthand cabnent under the tape reader Thank's for anny help you could provide Kevin

[sdeering]

I have a boss 5. Not quite the same. Have a close look at the transformers. they may say what the output is as its wired. If the voltage is to high you may have to move some wires.

Then again it may be a total different problem.

I started out like somewhat like you machine didnt work. I got mine working but am about to convert it to a PC contol, much easier to use.

Good luck
Stephen

[Kevin Taylor]

Got the lub res full cleard/reset got display to 00.000 then can jog and G01 ect but the Z seem's to bind up if you call for more than .500 at a time can jog -Z then G25 and it will move+ about1" and stall and squiell untill I clear/reset X and Y seem all right need's a little of ajustment on the limitt on the X can't get 18" total of X travel But the Z's got Me will remove cover tomarrow and see what is going on maybe a lose pulley but don't think my luck is that good Thank's Kevin

[Eric]

When I first got my BOSS 5, My Z axis would stall on rapids and the motor just sits there and sing until the command is stopped. What I have to do is open up the front cover and shoot WD40 in there to help clean out all of the old lube and gunk that has built up over the years. I extend the quill and spray that as well. Keep driving the Z up and down and sparying WD40 or your favorite cleaner until you can rapid without stalling. Make sure you splash on some waylube after you spary the WD40. You don't want to be running the quill up and down without lube.

[sdeering]

When you do get things running check to make sure all oil points are getting oil. My boss 5 had a few that the meters were pluged and were getting no oil.
Good to see you got the thing doing something.
Stephen

[machintek]

BTW: The 007 error usually means a halted LSI-11 board (the mother board). Make sure logic power is accurate, and try cleaning the edge connector.

George

[Kevin Taylor]

It's alive I took the front cover off of the Z and joged to the bottom of the travel and hosed the thing down with WD then with vactor #2 and kept at it programed a G81 and kept at it for ten min. or so and it G25's ok now need to flush out the lub lines and keep it running now Thank's for the help everyone Kevin

[Kevin Taylor]

Now to comunicate with it with a PC this machine has a Black Box instaled on it to upgrade the 20milamp out put to RS32 I have some book's that came with the machine but the info on the box is scetchey at best no clear wiring pinout for a cable it has a 25pin plugin on it insted of the morecommen 9pin. The keypad on the machine is a littel different than the Boss's in the book's I have[see pic's] not shure what the key to the right of the clear is it is not marked If anyone has one of thies that they run and could help out it would be a great help will do a googel search for info on this box If anyone has one of thies I would like to compair notes on the hookup Thank's Kevin

[Kevin Taylor]

Got it going had to play with the dip switches in the black box a little and make a cable to go from 25 to 9 pin . loaded a program from the laptop and did a dry run will have to change my programing a little can't seem to do a multiquadrant with the boss3 control but it will do a G79 I intend to use this for a second op machine for a while then maybe resell it need a cnc lathe more looking for a boss3 programing manual Thank's Kevin