Originally Posted by
swhowardno1
i'm hoping you may be able to help a newbie with a chevalier fm-63rd controlled with a dynapath 40mu controller.
i purchased the machine last week after watching it manual jog perfectly. i brought the machine home (290 miles), ordered a 10hp rotory phase converter, while i was waiting i noticed all the insructions said to hook up 220v power to 2 leads of the cord to figure out which leads run the cpu, oiler, servo drives. i powered up on 220v until i got cooling fans, cpu, etc. the monitor showed typical ami boot, memory check, drive not ready, #%%$##@...i cycled the power about 15 times and it finally booted into dynapath, i tried to manual jog, but the z axis led was real weak, and flickering. tried to reference the machine and it thru a z axis failed and shut down. reset the error, tried to reference, z axis shut down again... powered down, and waited 2 days for the rotory converter, when it finally arrived, hooked everything up, oiled the bearings in the motor, fired it up and got drive not ready, tried rebooting for 4hrs and i haven't seen the dynapath boot screen since..#%%^%$##... of coarse the manuals were lost 20yrs ago, i checked all the obvious voltages. powersupply 12.2vdc and 5.04vdc. there are some voltages off the main transformer that apear +/-20% low, but without books i'm lost.... i notice the cambus led flashes green a few times then blinks red and stops long before the cpu even gets to ram check. the plc green flashes nonstop..no leds on servo controls..