Any arduino coders here?

[m_c]

The same, nice machine. Great to hear of someone else with one. Had a manual Shizuoka until recently and that was a good machine too.

I'm guessing your's is working?
I've just got the bare machine minus controller/drives/motors, and am currently at the stripping all the wiring out and figuring out what I need stage. Just waiting for payday, so I can get a Kflop and Kanalog ordered, along with some steppers/drives to start getting it wired up. The Kflop is capable of Modbus, so I'm thinking of using an arduino for the toolchanger control, but that's a job for in a few months time, once the basic machine is running.

[Zadig]

I'm guessing your's is working?
I've just got the bare machine minus controller/drives/motors, and am currently at the stripping all the wiring out and figuring out what I need stage. Just waiting for payday, so I can get a Kflop and Kanalog ordered, along with some steppers/drives to start getting it wired up. The Kflop is capable of Modbus, so I'm thinking of using an arduino for the toolchanger control, but that's a job for in a few months time, once the basic machine is running.

As it happens we will be building our machines together. I am in much the same state of affairs as you are. I am replacing the steppers with servo's and amps which I have sat here next to me. It sounds like we will be running a parallel course. I have just ripped out all the controls on both the machine and controller, so like you I am starting from scratch. Does your Summit controller have the PLC incorporated or is it like mine and uses a relay matrix?

[m_c]

As it happens we will be building our machines together. I am in much the same state of affairs as you are. I am replacing the steppers with servo's and amps which I have sat here next to me. It sounds like we will be running a parallel course. I have just ripped out all the controls on both the machine and controller, so like you I am starting from scratch. Does your Summit controller have the PLC incorporated or is it like mine and uses a relay matrix?

I've currently got as far as fixing the autolube, which involved disconnected the X-axis ballscrew sliding the table past it's stops, so I now need to get the table back in position, but cold weather is currently putting me off!
I'm opting for high voltage steppers and drivers for now, and closing the loop using the KFlop. I'm not planning on using mine for any major production work, so I'm happy to sacrifice some speed to get it working for less money.

My tool changer has three circuit boards within the tool changer housing, which interfaced to the last controller through a bank of relays in a rear mounted cabinet. My mill had already been retrofitted with a Heidenhain controller, so nobody really knows what it originally had. The last owner only bought it to get the controller and servos, and the remains had sat gathering dust for a good few years.