Need Help!- Hermes 3400 w/o cables - WHAT TO DO?!

[FullThrottle36]

Hello all! New to the CNC world, but would love to learn by diving head first into a shallow pool!

I recently stumbled on a New Hermes Vanguard 3400 and was very sad to find out both the cables on the back of the machine were cut! I have an EP Controller but it comes up with squares on the display when you power it on. I started by googling to find out more info on the machine and try to find a manual, and link after link sent me to this forum.

So, I don't know if this table works... I am pretty confident that the table worked fine but the EP controller was bad since it won't do anything when I plug it in. Checked the fuses they were fine. Just squares come up on the display.

After a few hours of reading the forum I see time and time again people referred to either buying a new controller or hacking something together.

I have soldering and tiny wire repairing skills, my main hobby is repairing old video arcade and pinball machines. I'm just wondering... WHERE DO I START? I don't want to drop a bunch of money only to find out my table is a piece of crap.

WITHOUT CABLES I DON'T KNOW WHAT WIRE OF THE 20+ WIRES GOES WHERE ON THE EP CONTROLLER. IS THERE A DIAGRAM OR SCHEMATIC AVAILABLE ONLINE TO BUILD A HOMEBREW CABLE WITH A MORE STANDARD END? ANY LINKS TO BUILDS OF A HERMES MACHINE??

Any and all help is greatly appreciated, thanks guys!

[aminear]

Your ep controller should give you an error message when it is not connected.
I forgot what the message was.

I do conversions to the controller to use a standard PC running Mach3 to run the machine. You can see several of my posts on the zone.

Without the wires on the machine you are in bad shape.

email me off list at aminear at wyomingwireless dot com.

[joe-electro]

Most likely your controller is okay. The black squares are normal when the EP boots. Inside the EP is actually a 386 or 486SX PC motherboard (there were at least two versions) and the black squares are displayed while the PC does its normal POST (power-on self-test). After post the controller will display a weird error message if it's not communicating with the table, so not having the correct cables will make the controller look like it's broken. I found a manual online that had the correct wiring diagram for my V8000 table; it might have the diagram you need to get yours running. Here's a link:

http://store.gearslut.com/store.php/...ruction-manual

Thanks,

Joe