Excitech CNC - Syntec Controller Users

[six-barrel]

Greetings

I just acquired my 1st CNC, its a Maxicam and has an auto tool height touch off.

I can measure the tool length, it's recorded properly. I can change tools, but when I check it's not compensating properly for the tool length.

I set the G54 Z parameter by just touching a tool tip to the top of the material and latch it.

It's like it's ignoring the different tool lengths

here's the code, I've latch G54 Z using tool1

M06T2
G90 G54
G0 X0 y0
G0 z0

I would expect the T2 tool tip to be at the spoil board. but it higher up because it's physically shorter.

Is there a step I'm missing using the auto tool height touch off?


Thanks
Mike

[stever0z]

Dear Sirs,

I have SYNTEC ez4, model:900ME, Version:10.112.96
It shows this error: "No. 95 MLC Alarm" as the following image
Attachment 226186

Any help ???

Thanks in advance

Hi not sure if you have had a reply?
I have one of these machines with the EZ4 controller, I have seen this error and it was the sensor on the ram that had moved or got knocked by my operator.
Check the position of the sensor that is for the dust shroud position, it is on the side of the spindle motor near the top of the air ram, in my case this had moved..

[EXLASer]

Hey,
You'd better check the how PLC says in TF card,bes it is wrote by different engineer from Syntec. So contact the manufacture and confirm everything then do it.
Regards,
Ms.Mary
XYZ Machinery

[Michael747]

@ all: thank you guys for your posts. It helped us a a lot with our machine (MAXI-C 1325 SE-T-V )


Hallo Mike,

in the first run I had also the problem with not taking the right tool hight after changing tools.

I have an example of the beginning of my g-code

%
O2000
(T1 D=3. CR=0. - ZMIN=-5. - SCHAFTFRSER)
(T2 D=0.9 CR=0. KONIK=118GRAD - ZMIN=-9. - BOHRER)
N10 G90 G94 G17 G49 G40 G80
N15 G21
N20 G28 G91 Z0.
N25 G90

(HORIZONTAL3D-PLANEN1)
N30 T1 M06
N35 T2
N40 S20261 M03
N45 G54
N50 M08
N60 G00 X20.262 Y19.167
N65 G43 Z15. H01
N70 G00 Z0.35

........


(BOHREN2)
N537110 M09
N537115 M01
N537120 T2 M06
N537125 T1
N537130 S1000 M03
N537140 G00 X38.521 Y225.262
N537145 G43 Z15. H02
N537155 G00 Z5.

The most important lines for taking the new z values are the g43 lines -> for Tool1 = G43 H1, for Tool 2 = G43 H2, .....

This Gcode was created with HSM Works which costed me a lot of try and error until the post processor worked on my machine.
On this weekend I figured out how the automatic tool measurement worked and was happy for a short time... until i wanted to grab tool 2. I don`t know anymore what it exactly said, but I think it was z limit exceded.
I deleted all tool offsets, turned off the machine and started it again but the toolchanges didn`t work anymore.

Has anyone had such a problem before?

I also tried the network connection between the syntec and my pc but never got it to work. I have tried different tutorials from this board but nothing worked for me.
How do you copy your nc files from your pc to the machine? Now I do it with the floppy disk(we have no usb) and it`s certainly not the best solution because it takes too much time especially if you want to insert a lot of programs at the same time....

Thanks for your answers

Best regards

Michael

[nash]

Michael,
I can help you setup your syntec with a network connection. Send me a pm. I use our machine exclusively from our servers.
Nash

[Michael747]

Hallo Nash,
thank you for your reply and your tutorial. Yesterdy I found some mistakes I made two months ago after reading your posts and tutorial. I`ll try it again this weekend and in case I fail I will write you a pm.

Thanks a lot

Michael

[Michael747]

A few days passed and I figured out what lead to the errors in the tool change.
After testing the automatic tool tip measurement, the parameters 2801 and 2802 changed. This happened after each tool tip measurement and the tool change didn`work anymore. Setting the old values and everything works fine.

But my network access still doesn´t work.

I get an error: 3652 This command is only available on enhanced workstations.
In addition it says bad command or filename -" \\MICHAEL\SUPERMILL"


I have tried different paths and names but i galways get the same result
I have no ideas anymore

Best regards

Michael

[nash]

Michael, try one thing first, can you try to mount \\MICHAEL\ SUPRRMILL as a remote disk on any other computer connected to your network?

[zohozer]

Hello, please I need a little bit of help if possible.

We have a Syntec Model 900ME version: 10.114.56Q that have giving two errors:

MLC99 (R46.2) PLC Alarm
MLC80 (R44.15) PLC Alarm

I can't move the machine in any direction, I can't do anything....

Please, if somebody can help with this errors, I will greatly appreciate.

[hadi2217]

hi my friends
i have a problem with synec ez3.
i think the problem is abou servo motor adjust parametrs
when i move machine for example XAIXS I SEE in monitor 1000 mm but when i measure it by metre is 995mm
and when i move machine 2000mm after i measure it by metre i see 19940mm
i think servo parameters in controller need to change
can u help to me
best regards

[hadi2217]

plz help to me

[zohozer]

My friend, welcome to the club! Besides other problems with this kind of machine I also have the same problem as yours. The machine need to be calibrated but because of the lack of documentation I don't know how to do this properly.

I'm asking also myself for help about this problem. If somebody have a solution, please post a reply. Thankyou!

[hadi2217]

hi friends
i have a syntec contoller ez3 series
i think the parameter about servo drive in controller dont set
because when move machine by hand wheel for example 1000mm
but when i measure this distance by metre is 995 or 994.5 mm
in y axis same to it
when distance is more 2000mm this change is bigger 1994mm means 60mm is different
i think paramers about servo moto in contorooler dont adjust
can u help me
it is urgent for me
tnx

[hadi2217]

plz help to me

[nash]

Hi hadi2217, I can tell you the parameters that you can use to set this in my syntec control, just that it's not ez3. If you'd like that, I'll look into it on Monday.
N

[hadi2217]

hi
thanks . finally i find them and set....

[zohozer]

hi
thanks . finally i find them and set....

Please can you share the knowledge with us? I have the same problem as yours... I have 1mm of the axis for every 1 meter of machine travel in x and y directions.

[irishjam]

Hi All,
I have just bought a second hand Chinese router with a syntec ez3 controll.
Everything is working well tool change etc and i even managed to connect it to the network.
The problem i am having is the z homing.
It homes to 1 of 2 different places each time the machine is switched on.
1 homing sequence is z goes up, sensor light comes on, z goes down, light off, z goes back up, light comes on and stays on, system is homed.
2nd sequence is z goes up, sensor light comes on, z goes down, light off, z only goes up only a few millimeters, light doesnt come on, system is homed.
As you can see this means the machine z0 changes depending on where it homes to, this causes a big problem when going for a tool change.
Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

John

[Keithconde]

Excitech SHMS 2040C (SYNTECH EZ4M)


Hi Everyone,

I followed all your Post Thread and I gives some Ideas on how to troubleshoot our Machine..

I would to ask for Help & Expertise regarding our Problem because It is hard to contact EXCITECH tehnicians.

Our problem is regarding C-axis(Y2) because it does not HOME precisely in zero position not like the (Y1) in HOME Correctly,

But somehow the machine can still run the smoothly, On the other we cannot HOME the machine in every End of the operation it should be

on the far side of the HOME POSITION.

Lately it disturb me during Engraving Machining if i repeat the operation because of low DEPTH it make a step cutting.

Please Help.

Respectfully,
Keith

[ordibeheshd]

my excitec shms1325 arrived since december and up till now it refused to work upon all the useful postings on the forum- i am almost fraustrated. i get the following error messages:

1).When I did M6TX in MDI mode, I got the following error messages “ motion 17 z axis positive software limit exceed” and also “coordinate 40 the 1 NC program L1 block end point exceed software limit”.



2). When I try to run my gcodes, I got the following error messages “ motion 18 z axis negative software limit exceed” and also “ coordinate 40 the 1 NC program L 11 block end point exceed software limit



Also I noticed that when I move the router head towards the tool bank, as soon as the head passes the cutting limit and move towards the the tool bank, I get this error message, “motion 17 c axis positive software limit exceed.


i will be very grateful if anybody can help me out, believe me it is fraustrating. i have been in tontact with excitec and they cant help i believe its partly because of language barrier.

priestwood

dear sir !
i am using a chinese CNC with syntec 6mD controller.the machine was working properly and today when i wanted to run a G code ,it came up with this error :
Motion 17 ZAxis Positive software limit exceed
Coordinate 40 The 1NcProgramL1: exceed software limit or hardware limit

however i tried to execute the other G code which i ran on the machine the day before,but still the alarm was showing up.
i was wondering if it was the same as ur problem.i would like to know if u have solved it and what was the method to overcome this problem.
my machine is 1325 with 7.5 kw HSD spindle.none ATC .
ill appreciate if u can help me in this case .
tx