Replacing elderly Anilam 1100 control system on vertical mill

[Neale]

Do you have it up and running? We are still waiting for the guy making the motor mounting plates before we start assembling everything in its new control cabinet (the old one, modified a bit). By coincidence, I had a video-conference with the owner of this machine this afternoon, running through things like how to load gcode, checking that we were using a suitable post-processor in Fusion 360, how to set work coordinates, things like that. He is not that familiar with using CNC yet as he had not really been able to run the machine with the old Anilam controller as he never found a PP that generated valid gcode for it - there were always some odd gcode lines that it did not like - so he was reassured that we could take output from F360 and actually get it to turn the servos! Not a lot more we can do until the electronics is fitted in the cabinet and the motors are in place.

I'm still wondering about servo tuning as I only have this Chinese language version. Occasionally just running the servos on the bench they trip out with a "position exceeded" error but this seems likely to be because they are unloaded at the moment and the tuning is probably wrong. Have you been able (or needed) to do any servo tuning?

[Duha]

Do you have it up and running? We are still waiting for the guy making the motor mounting plates before we start assembling everything in its new control cabinet (the old one, modified a bit). By coincidence, I had a video-conference with the owner of this machine this afternoon, running through things like how to load gcode, checking that we were using a suitable post-processor in Fusion 360, how to set work coordinates, things like that. He is not that familiar with using CNC yet as he had not really been able to run the machine with the old Anilam controller as he never found a PP that generated valid gcode for it - there were always some odd gcode lines that it did not like - so he was reassured that we could take output from F360 and actually get it to turn the servos! Not a lot more we can do until the electronics is fitted in the cabinet and the motors are in place.

I'm still wondering about servo tuning as I only have this Chinese language version. Occasionally just running the servos on the bench they trip out with a "position exceeded" error but this seems likely to be because they are unloaded at the moment and the tuning is probably wrong. Have you been able (or needed) to do any servo tuning?

Yes all up and runnig.
I had to change the max speed for G00 movement as it was set way to high in the controler and also the acceleration/deceleration. Than slight adjustment on steps per/mm values.
But all that took no longer than 1hour.
The programing/control is very easy mind you i have a 20 years of experience with many many controlers. At the moment i program it at the panel. Very shortly i will need to use CAM so iam going to have to find a post processor that suit or find one close enough and adjust acordingly to suit this controller.
If you need any help just let me know and i ll try my best to help with what i learned upto now.

How can i upload any photos or videos?
I would show you the way i have made the mounts.
Cheers Petr