4020 1985 CNC88 "Stops In Motion"

[chipsahoy]

Was doing some Engraving and the machine stop's and the program goes back to the beginning.. I re cold started the machine.. Made the program smaller, and still haing the same problemm .. All other functions seem to be fine..

Chips

[chipsahoy]

So I go back and run a previous program and the machine runs fine.. Does all tool changes and no sigs of any activity.. Is it just a fact that the old controls dont like big programs that are associated with text engraving??

All the fans and everything seem to be working.. Is this a sign of the Vector Drive going out or can I enjoy my weekend??

Chips

[carbidecraters]

Sounds to me if your drip feeding the machine that you dont have your pc set on "hardware", "X O on off"

[chipsahoy]

Thanks for the reply.. I wish I was drip feeding!!!, but im not.. Any other conciderations?

[chipsahoy]

Sometimes we are our worst enemies.. I ran a previous engraving program that is "BIG" at least for this machine .. It ran fine.. I wish I had a newer control so that I could do a "GA" on the simulation and prove before I ran.. It is looking as though the fault is in the program..

Chips..

[nstaley]

did you check to make sure you didnt somehow get an M30 in there?

[jamesrairdon]

Try renumbering your program. It's possible there's a bogus N word on one line. Renumbering should correct that.

[Shizzlemah]

As already said, renumbering helps. Renumbering with an increment of 1 will make the program a bit smaller too.

Did you go to the command line and enter "SUM" ? That should point you in the right direction.