Drip feeding a Citizen

[aeromachine]

We are looking into doing a lot of surfacing millwork on various parts so the programs are rather long, infact are so long we are out of memory to even run them.
My question is: Is there a way to drip feed a Citizen L20 or C16 with Mitsubishi controls like one might do with a Fanuc control?
Thanks for any enlightenment you may give on this subject.


-Aeromachine

[cogsman1]

What L20 do you have? L3-20, L5-20, L7-20, ?? The controls are different levels. What does the control flash on the screen as you power up?

[aeromachine]

Thank you for your reply Cogsman1.
I am not at work toda so not able to check the flash screens.
The oldest L's are about 6 years the newest are about 6 months with several of various ages in between if that helps. I run the C16 type 9 which is the only one of its kind in the shop. It is about 7 years old now. All of the machines are new enough with the exception of the C16 that they do not have the embedded windows 95.
Thank you again for your help.

[seanagel]

Our shop has several C-16's if you are trying to use the block T23 thru T21 the G 12.1 is kind of flakey for surfacing but we use the gang slide tools T11 thru T14 with ease. I dont know what kind of profile you need. you might consider using simple sub programs and looping them with a macro.

[cogsman1]

Those older models do not have the ability to drip feed, but, the newer L20 will be able to.
Look in the "Programming" manual that came with the machine, start on page 6-19. The ",D1" option is for running a sub program from the CF card slot.