3 ½ floppy drive to USB flash drive readers

[scadvice]

I have a CNC machine that has a floppy drive and would like to upgrade to a USB port. Has anyone used or done this? I'm not a stronge electrical person but do some minor repairs. Board, cable, drive tuning, ect. One site i found has this 3 ½ floppy drive to USB flash drive reader conversion. http://www.floppytousb.com/ Has any one used it? For 275 bucks it seems like it might be worth a try. Anyway, looking for feed back on it or other suggestions or products.
The machine I want to change the floppy out of is a 3 axis MIllPwr control from Acurite. Also, I'm looking for feed back on Calmotion products. I think that is the way to go for me on my 1996 FADAL, but still trying to decide if it's also the best system for the 1997 O T Fanuc control on my lathe?
Thanks - Steve

[Al_The_Man]

Did you see this previous post?
http://cnczone.com/forums/showthread.php?t=69215
Looks like the same product.
Al.

[scadvice]

Yep... It's the same product. Thanks Al for the link to that Forum. I can assume what they said... "The device emulates a floppy. You machines will still see this device as a 3 1/2 drive due to hardware/software on your machine"...And what you said..."Therefore, its still limited to a max of 1.44 Megs Storage because thats all your machine can see" still applies? Are you saying that 1.44mg is the max you will allowed to read or store?I guess I should give them a call. I just want to get away from floppys on the Millpwr control and any any hard wire hookups in the shop. Just a tad high in price... but still considering.
I still would like to hear feedback from any Calmotion users who have that setup hooked up to Funuc controls.
Steve

[WESTERNTOOL]

Upgrade your existing MILLPWR Control System with a New Compact Flash Card Reader.
right from the horses mouth.
http://www.acu-rite.com/view/millpwr...l-systems.aspx

[scadvice]

Thanks Western I'll look into and report back results.
Steve

[scadvice]

Cost to upgrade to flash card is $885.00 and you have to send your control in.
Hummm...a bit much.

I think I'll stick with trying the floppy imulator $275.00 with a money back...

Steve

[jdr]

Other choice is spend $102.00 on Ebay.


Link:

http://stores.ebay.com/The-replaceme...r-floppy-drive

[Kevin44]

Has anyone had any luck using a software program to send programs

[plrlab]

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