Newbie- 1994 Lr Mate 100.No controller. What I'm going to do with it?

[mastroattilio]

"Why not make your first post today by saying hello to our community in our CNCzone Club House forum. "
Well, Here I am; Hallo!
First, sorry for my poor english, my mother-tongue is Italian and its even worst than my english...
Anyway, I'm an engineer (27), no experience, intrested on what's going on in this website.
I decided to begin with my biggest challange:
During trasportation, we somehow, lost our controller. It was a RJ fom FANUC, and now I have a 37kg paperweight beside my desk (the robot).

I asked fanucRobotics and they said a new controller is going to cost about 25-30 k$, and i coud purchase a whole new one for less.

I've been able to understand that encoders from FANUC are keyed, so no chance to control it with third party hardwere (which I coudn't find),
nor even troutgh a CANopen system (complicated anyway).

What is your opinion?
Sale it? whole or spare parts?
Any suggestion on where to look for make it move again?

Thanks guys!

[memoryman]

what was the exact RJ controller model?

[mastroattilio]

No Idea! The only thing I know is that the robot was built in 1994 and for this reason FanucRobotics says it has been controlled by a rj and not rj-2.

by saing "exact moldel" you mean fe Fanuc spere code? how do I understand the exact model of something that is gone?

[memoryman]

look on ebay for parts and/or third party robot dealers.

[paul3112]

we have a complete unit inc controller