Originally Posted by
tcom-frazzled
I am in the process of doing an upgrade on a Kitamura MyCenter 0 for the exact reason that you are mentioning. The Mate version of the Fanuc 0 series has two serious limitations that I needed to resolve. The first was the tiny memory footprint, the second was the fact that the Mate only supports Macro A.
I went a slightly different route with my upgrade and picked up a second hand 0M-C control (32 bit, high speed cpu version). Taking this approach allowed me to keep everything else in place and cost me less than a grand. The only hang up I ran into along the was was the fact that I had purchased a newer control that had been equipped to run with alpha series amps/servos/spindle. As a result, I had to swap out the servo eprom, do some servo tuning, and replace the memory board with the correct version to support the analog spindle amp. Other than that, it was just a matter of moving the PMC EPROMs over and restoring the old parameter and diagnostics from backup. I now have a much faster machine, dnc at 19200 baud, and enough memory onboard for my renishaw tool measurement and spindle probes with inspection plus. Not sure if that approach would suit you, but I did see another 0-MC on eBay just a few days ago.
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