Try this www.engravers journal.com or go right to Hermes.
I have aquired a Hermes Vanguard 7200 Engraving machine.. Doing a quick search I cannot find much info on it. Does anyone know of a source for manual and such?
thanks
sam
Try this www.engravers journal.com or go right to Hermes.
Thank you.. Have not decided what I want to do with this..
I plugged it in - and it homed - then smoked(not a big deal - fixable but I would rather use emc2 to control it..)
http://www.electronicsam.com/images/engraver/drive.JPG
http://www.electronicsam.com/images/engraver/rip.JPG
I hooked a parker microstepping drive up to one of the axis's and ran it thru emc2.. Worked great and zipped it around at 120ipm with no issues. I used 1000steps per rev and the lead screw was 4 thread per inch which gives .00025.
http://www.electronicsam.com/images/...r/engraver.JPG
they are only 1.5a 5v 6wire steppers - I hooked up just one of each coil running bipolar.
its work envelope is 20"X12"X2.25" - nice size.
sam
got 3 parker/compumotor drives hooked up the the existing steppers. So far so good.
Crappy picture of my foot
that was zipping around at 60ipm.
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here is a quick video
sam
Hey Tom,
I am new here also and I see no one answered your request for help on new hermes 7000as of today.
I also just bought a 7000 to do some watch engraving. Have you figured out how to get your machine working. I bought the program Open Sys from gravograph but it is a dos program and there is no way to use it without training. The training from them is outragous and time to enroll is min 4 months. I think their motive is selling the new $5000program or a new machine Beats me.
Honestly.. I would just get some stepping drives and run it with emc or mach.. The new gecko 4 axis 3.5a drives would be a great match.
Cheap drives?
That would allow you to use real cad/cam software to develope your parts.
I sold mine on ebay a few months back. (I am in greater need of a garage)
sam
This was using emc2
"http://youtube.com/watch?v=Og6V-nS2dig"]YouTube - EMC2 running Hermes engraver making PCB
"http://youtube.com/watch?v=a_OUNLruaVQ"]YouTube - EMC2 running hermes 450ipm 50in/s/s doublefreq
"http://youtube.com/watch?v=Hdhn_j6PrCw"]YouTube - emc2 dry run of the 3d_chips test program (linuxcnc penguin)
Thanks for even replying to me. This forum is so large I am a bit overwhelmed just by the site, Not to mention that I know nothing about these machines. I am a retired Autobody Shop owner and somewhat Ill. This machine is to complement my hobby (Watches) I want to engrave on new dials. My machine will run on new style software and the machine was working fine when bid on by the guy I bought it from. Graveograph sells a program that runs this baby right away, but it is $5000.00 I will sell the machine before paying that much to see it chip away. It will take the code through a parallel cable. I don't think I can wire in new stepper motors unless I saw someone else doing it. This animal is really not anything I have even touched before. This is why I was looking for a friendly person with a Vanguard 7000EP that is working and on what software. I know this machine will work when set up right. At the auction where it came from a couple of finefellows lifted the computer with software and this is the problem. No guys in sight now!!
Thanks for your suggestion and help,
Phil
I have done some reading on these machines.
They will should run using the HPGL drivers, just like a printer doing graphics.
You should be able to just load the windows drivers for HPGL and go.
I have an older machine the 3400 but the EP controller had problems. (the motherboard CMOS battery had corroded and damaged the motherboard)
I tossed it and rewired the motor driver board directly to the printer port.
Now I run the machine directly from my computer using MACH3.
I just finished figuring out the limitswitches last night and got them configured also so I can do homing. If anyone needs the schematic I built for doing this rewiring let me know and I can email it to you.
Arnie
Hello,
Yes, I would be very interested in a copy of your schematic you made. And anything else you have I may copy and send back to you. Do you have the Windows version to run the new hermes it is Gravograph 5 I think. anything I learn is more than I know. This machine was working fine until the computer came up missing.
my home e-mail is philandpatty@cox.net
Sencerely,
Phil