Need Help!- Mori Seiki Lathe Sl 3A

[rajuicnc]

Hello,

I am a new member to this community,

Regards and good wishes to all,

Recently I purchased an Old Mori Seiki Lathe with Fanuc 6ta control
which has only LED single line diaplay and no CRT,

The Machine is working fine, the problem is entering program manually
which takes lot of time, hence I need help interface the machine with
pc for rs232 communication. The machine has one blue honda type
connector with 20 pins, i dont have any manuals. how to convert this
port to rs232 and also what are the parameters and settings to be made
for transferring programs from PC to machine.

Hope I will get a reply ASAP,

Best Regards,

Raju.C
innovativecnc@yahoo.co.in

[JohnnyTurn]

You need to get a BTR. (Behind the tape reader)

I believe your machine in Pre RS-232. So there is no "conversion" to RS-232
A BTR will trick the tape reader into thinking it's receiving punched paper tape when it is receiving binary code from the PC.

In other words: The PC sends out Binary code (1001001), The BTR converts the binary code to a paper punched signal. The control accepts the code.

Some BTR's only SEND and do not receive programs back to the PC. That's OK though because editing on the older controls is not userfriendly. You just have to do you editing/debugging on the PC and send the program back o the control when you are done.

My Old SL3B has the YASNAC 2000G control. This setup works well.

It is not easy to get it set up. You MUST have a BTR that will work with the FANUC 6. You must have the SPECIAL WIRED CABLE. An off the shelf cable will not work. And you need the communication software for the PC to interface with the control.

Google "BTR for fanuc 6" To find some of the companies that make the package I have discussed. It's not cheap. I had my local retired Mori tech make me the BTR board and sell me his software to get passed this problem.
If you want his info I can give it to you.

JT

[rajuicnc]

Hello Johnny Turn

Thank you for the valuable reply and suggestion

I will try to find any technician locally,

Best Regards,

Raju.C

[cncdiag]

The 6A does have RS232 capability it was an option.
What series software do you have?

[rajuicnc]

Hello,

I came to know that there is a posibility to convert into rs232 by little
modification and setting.

I need the details for converting the ASR/facit port to rs232 and also
what are all the parameters to be changed for interfacing PC.

I am having WINPICIN and CIMCOEDIT software for communicating with other
machines, but no idea to which series these softwares belongs to.

Awaiting your reply at the earliest,

Best Regards,

Raju.C
innovativecnc@yahoo.co.in

[bbrreid]

Hi, I have the same machine but it has a box on the back with 2 inputs on one side and one on the other with a 240v power input please see pics
I have tried to connect up the machine but dont have a clue how

[cncdiag]

The attachment tells you how to set the RS232 option.

[bbrreid]

Thank you very much for taking the time to post this very helpful reply
Brian

[cncdiag]

The cable you make up plugs into CSR on the puncher board.
Forgot to put that in the procedure

[Freda Tesseneer]

Thanks to all who posted the information about the Mori Seiki. I have this machine to setup also. We will be working on it on January 5. I may be posting some questions myself!

[rajuicnc]

Thank you for the connection details,

Can you please give the details to convert DB 25 Fpin M/C sideto DB 9 pin M PC side,

I have Cimcoedit software for communicating with other machines, can this
same software holds good for fanuc 6T A,

regards,

Raju.C

[WGoyer]

Rajuc,

This will work:

Fanuc 25 Pin Female Laptop 9 Pin Male
2------------------------------------------2
3------------------------------------------3
7------------------------------------------5
4-------
|
5-------

6-------
|
8-------
|
20------

I'm not sure it is obvious, but 4 and 5 are jumpered. Also, 6,8, and 20 are jumpered together.

Warren