Interact 1 MK2 update and problems

[gus]

Oh yeah, is there oil in it?

[BrianP]

The oil tank appears to be half full.

I am still wondering about the air fittings on the left side of the machine near the column, there was nothing hooked to them and when I supplied air to the machine air just rushed out so I took the fittings out and put plugs in there place. Are they suppose to be hooked up to something?


I also noticed when I wired the machine up that the tag said it was wired for 220/230, but someone wrote on the side panel in marker that it was wired for 440 but when I checked out the transformer it was actually wired up for 210. Since it came out of an older school I am assuming the building was wired for 210. The thing is there was another wire that was switched at some point from the original setup as you could plainly see where the factory had it wired originally, I moved it back to this original position, did I goof? here is a picture of the wire.

[gus]

PICS.............

The old ones [with varispeed head] frequently had a indexer attachment with a pair of air lines, but they don't leak air. What kind of tooling, power drawbar?

[BrianP]

no power draw bar, it uses taper 30 holders, here is a picture. The air fittings are just to the right of the light base.

[BrianP]

Had a friend over today to help me look at it, well we messed something up I guess. I showed him how the machine zeroed out okay and what happens when I press the reset button as far the spindle moving goes.
We were going through the various buttons trying to get something to happen, I guess it did and not for the good.
When I power the machine down now and try to restart it I get the following messages as before, Memory check, power interrupted. The problem now is when I use to press an axis key the machine went into a homing cycle, now I get the word DIST. displayed and the x,y and z screen does not come up and the machine does not zero any longer.

We were able to find a total of 7 fuses, all of them checked out okay.

Does anyone know of someone in my area that can help out, thanks Brian.
Brian Penley
Westfield Indiana
317-877-0239

[gus]

DIST is distance from reference marks, one of the available views [actual, distance, nominal, lag]

Is the machine enabling? look for lights on the servo amps

[BrianP]

Please remember I am a neophyte when it comes to electronics, what do you mean by enabling and what/where are the lights/servo amps? sorry if I am dumb on this but unfortunately I am.

[gus]

You need to get manuals. The Heidenhain manuals can be got at their website. The interact manual try ebay.

The button you hit after the 'CE' button and before you hoe the machine is the 'power enable' button. It enables a self holding relay, which is what pops out if you hit the EMO button [big red button]


There will be 3 servo amps in the power enclosure, and they should have some sort of LEDs on them, 2 green if they are Bosch amps, prior to being homed, IIRC

again, get the manuals or you are just going to struggle and get frustrated and I am just going to yell at you.

[machintek]

The Heidenhain manuals are only for the control. These include a programming manual.
Bridgeport had a maintenance manual as well as its own operating manual.

The display is changed under the MOD key.

George

[Johnathan R]

Hi Brian,

Did you ever find the problem causing the spindle drive fault?

Have the same machine with the same problem and cannot find the solution.

Heidenhain TNC 2500 Controller

Regards,
Johnathan