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    Default Reactivating old Isel router

    Dear all,

    I own a Isel router from 1992 in it‘s original configuration. I‘ve got it from a friend who used it for 2,5D panel cuts. When I‘ve received it, I did not have any SW and I basically used Modified PLT files that I then copied to the COM port to run it.

    It‘s now standing there unused for a few years, as this methode wasn‘t very robust.

    I want to reactivate the beast and in addition use the 3D capabilities it has. I made some tests in the past with hand modified files to hace it running, but that‘s just a mess.

    I am in the lucky situation to atill have the documentation, or at least a part of it, which includes the commands for the controller.

    Unfortunately my old PC that I‘ve used to run it does not work anymore, so I have to set up another machine.

    Therefore I have plenty of questions on how I can drive that thing.

    I still have a laptop with WinXP installed and a genuie COM Port, that should be OK I guess.
    There must be a better way to send the files to the Router than copy to COM1. Like this, there is no way to pause the job and I don‘t receive any feedback from the router.
    Concerning the language. Does anybody of you has an idea, what language it is? Here some commands:
    XA: go to absolute cordinate of X
    ZE: set new reference point
    MA: go to absolute cordinate (XYZ).

    Any hints on these points would already help me a lot.

    The machine is still untouched for 3 years now, I want to have some emore info before I get on to it.

    Thanks in advane

    Jeff

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    Default Re: Reactivating old Isel router

    Since no one's replied, I'll share my experience.

    I have an old DaVinci, probably from the late 90's. It's a very small but heavily built stepper machine. I found the original controller to be very limited and frustrating, so I took everyone's advice and replaced it with Mach 3 and a Gecko 540 driver. Works fine now for me. I'm about to add an ethernet smoothstepper to free me from the parallel port.

    What model is your Techno? Stepper or servo?



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