DNC Help Please on VMC15

[FastFieros]

I have an older 93 VMC15 with 1400-4 cards.. so, this makes it at early 96 firmware.

I have been trying to get the DNC working. I have finally out grown my little memory area.

I can load the smaller programs to the machine with Cimco V5 and even ConnectCNC.. I put in the TA,1 and we have great communication..

However when I go to DNC, I get some strange things.

Cimco will start to load the program and get to line 320, and the Fadal screen shows it just stops taking any more lines of code.

ConnectCNC will start to load the program and get to line 290 of the same above program and the Fadal screen shows it stops taking lines of code there.

I dont get any errors displayed.. it just stops taking lines of code.

If I start to play with the parity, I start to get errors. If I change the baud rate from 9600, neither program will work. It seems that 9600 is the only setting that wants to work. I dont understand why 4800 wont work really on transferring a program, but it will not.

I am starting to think I have a bad communication card in the machine, but maybe it is just a software setting.

here is the few lines of code it is taking via DNC.. if I cut this program to line 5000, I can load it fine and run it as a resident program on the machine.

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N120G20
N130G0G17G40G49G80G90H0E0Z0
N140G28Z0.
N150G28X0.Y0.
N180T3M6
N190G0G90S222M3X-1.2847Y-.1442
N200H3Z1.M8
N210G1Z-.03F4.
N220G3X-1.3105Y-.22I.2758J-.1363F6.
N230G1Y-.3444
N240G3X-1.2847Y-.4248I.3367J.0639
N250G1Y-.0221
N260G3X-1.3105Y-.0527I.2758J-.2584
N270G1X-1.3097Y-.5209
N280G3X-1.2825Y-.555I.3359J.2404
N290G1X-1.2847Y-.4881
N300Y.0729
N310G3X-1.3105Y.0511I.2758J-.3534
N320G1X-1.3008Y-.6364
N330G3X-1.2742Y-.6592I.327J.3559
N340G1X-1.281Y-.5978
N350X-1.2847Y-.4881
N360Y.1587
N370G3X-1.3105Y.1413I.2758J-.4392
N380G1X-1.2866Y-.7374
N390G3X-1.2593Y-.7549I.3128J.4569
N400G1X-1.269Y-.7052


TIA....

>L

[DareBee]

It sounds to me like your send settings need to be tweaked.
I suggest you set send type to line and not to buffer.
I haven't touched my settings for a few years, so my memory may be off.
I DNC to my 94 fadal at 19200 baud.
You have to change the SetP parameter (for baud) and then power down the machine (once you are back to the MDI screen) for it to take.
I find 9600 baud really starves the control when you have really small moves like when "surfacing"