@@arduinoversusevil2025 thank you for just doing a genuine nice overview. I’ve been running haas machines for two years now and it’s just nice to have someone walk over it in a technical way like this
"Oh! A video on the innards of a HAAS CNC Machine!" - A guy who spent 12 years of his life inside the innards of HAAS CNC Machines. Why am I like this?!
This machine was the best investment I made. $5.00 a month on Patreon and I got a sweet piece of artwork for free once. I still cherish that hand drawn pencil drawing. Thanks AvE for the content over the years
Watching your videos got me into Arduino and Raspberry Pi because you applied them to things in my world that mattered. I learned Solidworks in 2005 and used it for a few years at university. Coolest thing I did was find a company willing to donate CNC time to my SAE Baja/Formula team. I arrived with a flash drive and an 80lb billet of Al-Loo-Minimum, and 24 hours later I left with a custom differential for a Formula SAE racecar. Haven’t done much with any machining since (I became a High School Teacher instead) but you keep me “in the loop” through your workbench and TownPumpCNC. Thank you for the effort. You deserve more shine for your work. Thank you as always, -CY Castor
I'm making a little CNC using an old MakerBot for frame and servos, a dremel for a spindle (I'm trying to be clever and use an extend-o-cock to lower the weight of holding the entire dremel) and an Arduino with some drivers, so the thing will use actual G-code to program, just to learn how, and maybe some day if I win the lottery, use one of these bigger machines.
Not as good as TOT eh. I wouldn't wanna be without any one of you. And if I may, thank you for lighting up this crazy world for the past 10 years. I've been onboard since pretty much the beginning. I don't remember how I found you, but I have to say you are still my favorite TH-camr along with TOT. Cheers.
Dude...technical member is sprung!!! You are a GOD of clarity and exposition. Thanks to your parents for spawning a F...ing genius and thank you for sharing your genius and incredible wit!!!
Last place I worked had several Makinos and Starrags. There was a poster in the shop, with a picture of a spindle and a Chevy pickup, explaining that crashing a spindle costs about the same as the truck.
Can you believe it's all free? It's entertaining, informative and pushes the frontiers of English! I cannot say that I learned more from AvE than in enginerding school, but he certainly taught me a lot beyond what school did. Stuff that I may never need and stuff that I could only learn from experience. Thank you for everything uncle Bumblefuck!
AvE, thanks for this video, and I am looking forward to the rest of the series coming. I’ve never been around one of those machines but have seen a lot of videos of them, none of which showed the innards…. Very grateful for your time and effort.
You can get I/O from the board (6:44) in the back (Relay outputs that you can activate using M-functions, cycle start/stop signals etc). They can be quite useful (for example when you want to use a robot for loading parts).
Interesting. I'd love to make a machine like this as part of a Matter-to-commodity system for automating well, commodity production for autonomous communities. I'd imagine access to that i/o would help to enable integration with the rest of the system quite nicely.
@@dansamarco1610 Yes. The last company I worked for I was working on these and I designed an interface for 1 plug to connect a robot with the machine and fully automate loading/unloading parts.
Thanks for cleaning up a little that pit before shooting the video, the empire of dirt is one of the most accurate names you've come up with. BTW you'll be glad to know I'm watching this in mute and with auto CC, the monthly bed exercise would be cancelled if I would happen to disturb the beauty sleep of the significant other. Will apply everything learnt inmediatamente.
Man where were you and this video 2 months ago.. I without any experience, expertise, training, knowledge and knowhow was asked to set up a factory air system for 6 horizontal haas cnc, 4 matsura vx-660, empire sandblaster oven and paint booth as well as various work stations. Not a fucking clue what I was doing but your videos helped more anyone else so thanks for that friend. Ps - from an once upon a time michigander your videos feel like home
In a day and age where everything is mortised, or an advert in some way or another, how incredible to find someone willing to share their knowledge only for the purpose of helping other people learn. Thanks for taking the time to create, edit and share.
One aid for the Haas machines is ensuring the air feeding to it is clean and dry. Down the road all the pneumatic solenoids become a pit after they gunk up. I've been out of machining for a few years this video brings back many fond memories. 🙂
Speaking as a guy who learned basic milling and lathe work in the early 90s this is mesmerizing. I only learned enough to do basic engine rebuilding and prep for rebuilding. Would very much enjoy this but not creative enough to do it.
Brings back the first time I walked thru the machine shop my dad built 1 city block long all the press's the oil bath 800 dungarees. If n I remember they had made some parts for space shuttle. What I really remember was the magnet machine ( turned stuff magnetic), and o yeah the air gun my dad made shot the company clock half a block away, and the ice cream truck company across the street, it caught fire one day 55 gallons drums of ice cream shooting in the sky as a kid my heart was broken. That's one hell of a machine. Thanks for the tour.
The tool changer is driven by a servo and has a sort of cam mechanism inside. The only thing pneumatic is the tool release....if you hit the rapid speed override the tool change slows down according to that. And you can program the tool change to be slower for heavy or sensitive tools. 😉
Watching you wave that screw driver around the panel, reminds me of an electrician poking around a control panel and point out a bad contactor. Shortening the said 8 inch driver to a 6 inch in a blinding flash. He had to get a new pair of safety glasses and salve for some burns on his hand. And a new longer driver!
I absolutely 💯 love your content and your videos about spreading knowledge about tools and everyday life! We need more of your content and people like you in this world! Keep up the videos and being you.
Fun video. I’ve watched you for since the start and you’re probably responsible for my career. If it wasn’t for my curiosity in metal working I wouldn’t be almost 6 years into machining.
Correction!!! It has AC brushless servos,,,NOT DC BRUSHED (DC IS PRE1989 ON MOST) also it IS NOT a box way machine, it has linear guides. just trying to help so your videos are still very informative! Love your stuff man! Please please please still do more stuff with the haas! I enjoy watching you run it! 😊
I am lookin forward to a straight to the point set of discussions here...cuz that's the vibe I'm feeling...just a guy giving his best interpretation of the machine and it's abilities...keep em comin' bud
Wow, I have no recollection of watching this the first time around. Thanks for posting, I last used CNC and more basic NC machines close to 30 years ago, they weren't half as fancy as the Haas
I once shorted the resistance for breaking to the ground with my allen key. I can confirm around 450vdc run through theses resistances even when they are not making the motors brake. My allen key melted in my hand as the workshop lights were flashing. Love theses vids!
I was kinda surprised to learn Haas isn't a factory team. I know intimately how shitty Haas CNC machines are so I was stumped as to how they could put together a lawn mower that would run, much less an F1 car. Turns out team Haas is a privateer team with the manager always on the phone begging for their next $100k to get em through the day. It just so happens Haas CNC is the most consistent, biggest, check writer.
I never realized how cool it was that I knew how to program and run a handful of CNC lathes and mills, I only worked that job for about a year but it's a skill and knowledge set that I'm proud to know.
I love your channel and last year i have been hired as a machinist for a huge 5 axis cnc working with stone, enjoying the job but a massive headache with technical support, my buddy there will enjoy your vjos, definitively recommending him.
I'm just so happy to have found a north American video that pronounces the letter Z properly (zed NOT zee) well done that man. I'm also going to copy your "Danger do not touch" sign, Keep em coming
I'm a professional video colorist, and this is my favourite channel on TH-cam. If not for the fun of grading I'd be wrangling one of these for sure. Thx AvE!
@@sdhlkfhalkjgd i was at a shop that l dont think they ever cleaned out the tanks. They were replacing a pump one day when i was there to pick up some heads. You could smell it two blocks before you got there!
Regarding coolant going rancid, I was surprised that I never thought about it as an infection risk. It took that hand safety video Red Letter Media watched recently to drive this point home for me. Having open cuts when you can be splashed by coolant is not a good idea, it turns out.
@@semajniffirg230 that’s no good. I’m having a problem with the coolant at work drying my hands out and making the skin crack. Also I’m getting some strange discoloration on my forearms.
We used to buy those finger cots (or finger rubbers as we called them) by the gross just to keep the coolant out of nicks and cuts on our fingers. Our coolant tanks were like 5,000 gal, so they tried to get every last day out of the stuff. They used skimmers and dredgers and all sorts of additives to try making it last longer, but it didn't matter much, it was still hell on cuts and scrapes.
This used to work on older Haas machines to run with door open: To run machine with door open: 1. Settings Go to 7 Parameter Lock (enter 7 then push cursor down) Select "OFF", push enter. Note: flashing of cursor means that it is not activated, push enter to activate. 2. Go to Parameter 57 Push Emergency Stop in. Change the "Door Stop SP" from "1" to "0" 3. Settings. Go to 51 "turn Door Hold Override"to "ON"
This was useful mainly on lathes that I could not see into because of badly scratched glass. That way, I could single block the program and have the feed and speeds turned down to avoid a crash while I was trouble shooting new programs and when operators tried to do more than hit the green go button.. or in many cases... the green crash button. I was the engineer responsible for all machine and robot programming.
You young whippersnappers and your fancy-schmancy CNC machines. Back in my day, we had to hand crank our spindles by hand. Up hill. Both ways. In 4 feet of snow.😂
Well that CNC is freaking nice! I follow Saunders from NYC CNC. I have the Tormach 1100mx. Great machine but after seeing that 5 axis Haas, I’m seriously drooling. Wow. Nice.
The way the vector drive controls the power is much like pulse width modulation, PWM, but since the motors are AC it does SPWM, S being senoidal. It simulates an AC current and controls it with the modulated pulses. I find this freaking amazing!
The coolant can get a real nice piquant top note on the older machines that use a lot of way lube. I’ve use a wet dry shop vac to skim the oil off the top of the coolant where we don’t have skimmers. I run mostly Cnc lathes. We’ve got an 80’s era Nakamura Tome lathe that has a magnetic tape drive in the back of the control. And we still make production parts on it.
On my Haas TL2 lathe at work, I had a servo drive for my Y axis blow up on me a while back. Running a part followed by a very loud bang and the main 3 phase breaker at the panel tripping. I believe it was about $900 for the single servo drive and I replaced it myself due to the machine being out of warranty. The main machine control cabinet still smells like magic smoke :)
only 900 bucks? I always wondered why Haas parts are so expensive since they are not one of the high end manufacturers. The VF3 I work on recently got a new Vectordrive, 10,000€ (5k if you return the old one) for a part that's essentially a fancy VFD. Prob. died because of a mean crash that tore the belt apart.
Why is this better than any machine builders videos
I'm not trying to sell you the best CNC ever.
@@arduinoversusevil2025 thank you for just doing a genuine nice overview. I’ve been running haas machines for two years now and it’s just nice to have someone walk over it in a technical way like this
Probably isn't. Or is ecause AvE is not only your cup of CNC, but legend.
Alternatively, "off-switch for that"
attention included.
I'm back from the future to publish VJOs I forgot about.
Whats wrong with my guitar intro? Yeah I know...I suck at this lol
I was just scratching my head about the 3 year old comments.
Damn you, I thought this weed was laced.
Tell us about the time before COVID....
My confuser is broken after analyzing the time skip blip.
"Oh! A video on the innards of a HAAS CNC Machine!" - A guy who spent 12 years of his life inside the innards of HAAS CNC Machines.
Why am I like this?!
Same. 10 years on Haas. Now on DMG Mori.
@@hellbillyt You still look at objects in G-code? Or is that just me?
@@hellbillyt Ooh siemens stuff :s
Gee, u would think u would have done MORE with ur life?
@@OddBawZ There’s no place like G28 X0 Y0 Z0
*EDIT* Linear Ways. I messed up. Box ways are the most ridgid, but the Haas has linear ways.
still better than dovetail.
@@arduinoversusevil2025 Can you put noga mist coolant in the min qty lube thing instead of oils
What brand do they use? Hiwin? Snr? Iko? looks like 35 rails
Ho ho! I made a beeline here to bust you on that one. So instead, I will casually mention Swiss lathes.
@@jonaslacour8867 sometimes they use NSK. Put a few sets in
This machine was the best investment I made. $5.00 a month on Patreon and I got a sweet piece of artwork for free once. I still cherish that hand drawn pencil drawing. Thanks AvE for the content over the years
I feel asleep watching this. Not because it was boring. Because the sweet soothing sounds of technical CNC discussion are what I dream of.
NYC CNC is great for that, dreaming of Metal chips
I thought I was the only one. Greetings brothers.
AvE has soothed me through many an otherwise sleepless night, and for the same reasons. I love the sound of a lathe turning.
*fell
God damnit people.
Something isn't right here, to the right of the name it say that comment is from 3 years ago?
Watching your videos got me into Arduino and Raspberry Pi because you applied them to things in my world that mattered. I learned Solidworks in 2005 and used it for a few years at university. Coolest thing I did was find a company willing to donate CNC time to my SAE Baja/Formula team. I arrived with a flash drive and an 80lb billet of Al-Loo-Minimum, and 24 hours later I left with a custom differential for a Formula SAE racecar.
Haven’t done much with any machining since (I became a High School Teacher instead) but you keep me “in the loop” through your workbench and TownPumpCNC.
Thank you for the effort. You deserve more shine for your work.
Thank you as always,
-CY Castor
I'm making a little CNC using an old MakerBot for frame and servos, a dremel for a spindle (I'm trying to be clever and use an extend-o-cock to lower the weight of holding the entire dremel) and an Arduino with some drivers, so the thing will use actual G-code to program, just to learn how, and maybe some day if I win the lottery, use one of these bigger machines.
I'm driving a CNC machine on a raspberry pi. Videos in my playlists
@@TheFeralEngineer there goes my weekend plans!
I discovered him in a similar way. Just finished building our SAE Baja car's front differential, going to Tennessee competition in a few weeks.
companies that give of tool time are the best sponsors. Money gets things done, tool time lets you get it done.
as a cnc machinist, this is a great intro to what the machines are. this may be mandatory viewing at my work.
Not as good as TOT eh. I wouldn't wanna be without any one of you. And if I may, thank you for lighting up this crazy world for the past 10 years. I've been onboard since pretty much the beginning. I don't remember how I found you, but I have to say you are still my favorite TH-camr along with TOT.
Cheers.
I found him flycutting a potato.. LMAO
@@nelsonbrum8496 good times!
@@nelsonbrum8496 me too
@@nelsonbrum8496 as we all know, you can't put threads in a potato... Threads in a potato... threads in a potat...
Yes! Threading the potato was a good one. So much good content over the years. The dead CnC, lil screwy, mounting the anvil, axe review…
In fairness, I only discovered This Old Tony because of you. Clickspring as well. You have good taste, sir.
This is possibly the single best CNC instruction/introduction series of vi-day-O's anywhere on this entire channel.
It's been a while since I've seen the Renishield untampered, lol. The little humor details always make my day
Nothing like legitimate authority dropping them pearls. Thank you for your time sir much appreciated.
"You will find better, but you will not find dumber." How does anyone not love this man?
Dude...technical member is sprung!!! You are a GOD of clarity and exposition. Thanks to your parents for spawning a F...ing genius and thank you for sharing your genius and incredible wit!!!
Last place I worked had several Makinos and Starrags. There was a poster in the shop, with a picture of a spindle and a Chevy pickup, explaining that crashing a spindle costs about the same as the truck.
A long time I have waited for a series of this topic. Thank You for your hard work and efforts in making this for us all to enjoy.
Can you believe it's all free?
It's entertaining, informative and pushes the frontiers of English!
I cannot say that I learned more from AvE than in enginerding school, but he certainly taught me a lot beyond what school did. Stuff that I may never need and stuff that I could only learn from experience.
Thank you for everything uncle Bumblefuck!
So far maybe the second BEST tutorial about CNC.
That was really interesting, there a special skill in breaking down concepts into understandable chunks, and you're a master.
Agree 100%…. Real intellect is demonstrated by the ability to take the complex subject matter and explain it in a simple and concise manner.
AvE, thanks for this video, and I am looking forward to the rest of the series coming. I’ve never been around one of those machines but have seen a lot of videos of them, none of which showed the innards…. Very grateful for your time and effort.
Same here
You can get I/O from the board (6:44) in the back (Relay outputs that you can activate using M-functions, cycle start/stop signals etc). They can be quite useful (for example when you want to use a robot for loading parts).
Interesting. I'd love to make a machine like this as part of a Matter-to-commodity system for automating well, commodity production for autonomous communities. I'd imagine access to that i/o would help to enable integration with the rest of the system quite nicely.
Also pallet changers. And all sorts of automagic nonsense if you're clever.
It is like an API, but for CNC!
@@dansamarco1610 Yes. The last company I worked for I was working on these and I designed an interface for 1 plug to connect a robot with the machine and fully automate loading/unloading parts.
Thanks for cleaning up a little that pit before shooting the video, the empire of dirt is one of the most accurate names you've come up with. BTW you'll be glad to know I'm watching this in mute and with auto CC, the monthly bed exercise would be cancelled if I would happen to disturb the beauty sleep of the significant other. Will apply everything learnt inmediatamente.
Man where were you and this video 2 months ago.. I without any experience, expertise, training, knowledge and knowhow was asked to set up a factory air system for 6 horizontal haas cnc, 4 matsura vx-660, empire sandblaster oven and paint booth as well as various work stations. Not a fucking clue what I was doing but your videos helped more anyone else so thanks for that friend.
Ps
- from an once upon a time michigander your videos feel like home
In a day and age where everything is mortised, or an advert in some way or another, how incredible to find someone willing to share their knowledge only for the purpose of helping other people learn.
Thanks for taking the time to create, edit and share.
Great tour! Always amazing to see how a CNC machine actually works.
One aid for the Haas machines is ensuring the air feeding to it is clean and dry. Down the road all the pneumatic solenoids become a pit after they gunk up. I've been out of machining for a few years this video brings back many fond memories. 🙂
Thanks so much AVE. Truly fascinated by these machines. Can't wait to find out more about them.
Glad to see Tubalcain getting a shout out, dude's content is invaluable
Speaking as a guy who learned basic milling and lathe work in the early 90s this is mesmerizing. I only learned enough to do basic engine rebuilding and prep for rebuilding. Would very much enjoy this but not creative enough to do it.
Brings back the first time I walked thru the machine shop my dad built 1 city block long all the press's the oil bath 800 dungarees. If n I remember they had made some parts for space shuttle. What I really remember was the magnet machine ( turned stuff magnetic), and o yeah the air gun my dad made shot the company clock half a block away, and the ice cream truck company across the street, it caught fire one day 55 gallons drums of ice cream shooting in the sky as a kid my heart was broken.
That's one hell of a machine. Thanks for the tour.
Impressive explanation of a complex machine. Especially liked how much I learned on the electronical side of things. You’re a jem!
The tool changer is driven by a servo and has a sort of cam mechanism inside. The only thing pneumatic is the tool release....if you hit the rapid speed override the tool change slows down according to that. And you can program the tool change to be slower for heavy or sensitive tools. 😉
Watching you wave that screw driver around the panel, reminds me of an electrician poking around a control panel and point out a bad contactor. Shortening the said 8 inch driver to a 6 inch in a blinding flash. He had to get a new pair of safety glasses and salve for some burns on his hand. And a new longer driver!
One of the rare AvE videos i actually understood most of it!
10/10, would watch again as I've already forgotten from the last time... squirrel!
I absolutely 💯 love your content and your videos about spreading knowledge about tools and everyday life! We need more of your content and people like you in this world! Keep up the videos and being you.
I'm interested in learning CNC but don't know anyone with a machine. You just educated me better than any of the vjos I've seen. Thanks AvE.
Fun video. I’ve watched you for since the start and you’re probably responsible for my career. If it wasn’t for my curiosity in metal working I wouldn’t be almost 6 years into machining.
As a HAAS operator. This video is incredibly helpful! Thank you!
Thanks, nice job as always. I've been amazed at anything with motorized drives & doesn't have lead screw slop!
Correction!!! It has AC brushless servos,,,NOT DC BRUSHED (DC IS PRE1989 ON MOST) also it IS NOT a box way machine, it has linear guides. just trying to help so your videos are still very informative! Love your stuff man! Please please please still do more stuff with the haas! I enjoy watching you run it! 😊
I do not miss CNC work at all lived 12 years of my life as a Tool and Die Maker / CNC programmer do not miss it for a single second.
I am lookin forward to a straight to the point set of discussions here...cuz that's the vibe I'm feeling...just a guy giving his best interpretation of the machine and it's abilities...keep em comin' bud
Nice clean rundown of an industrial CNC. Glad to see how a big one works.
Wow, I have no recollection of watching this the first time around. Thanks for posting, I last used CNC and more basic NC machines close to 30 years ago, they weren't half as fancy as the Haas
Good to see new content. Always liked your channel. Live from Merica big big fan brother
I once shorted the resistance for breaking to the ground with my allen key. I can confirm around 450vdc run through theses resistances even when they are not making the motors brake.
My allen key melted in my hand as the workshop lights were flashing.
Love theses vids!
Thanks for the video. I've always wanted to learn more about CNC machines.
Frick yeah, thanks for taking the time. That's a fine machine!
What an interesting and entertaining video!
"Great Scott!"
"Heavy!"
Very comprehensive, excellent as always.
Next Episode - BOLTR: HAAS F1 Team
I was kinda surprised to learn Haas isn't a factory team. I know intimately how shitty Haas CNC machines are so I was stumped as to how they could put together a lawn mower that would run, much less an F1 car. Turns out team Haas is a privateer team with the manager always on the phone begging for their next $100k to get em through the day. It just so happens Haas CNC is the most consistent, biggest, check writer.
I'll never use a cnc, yet I find this video fascinating
Love the video. Love seeing all the insides and behind the panels.
Love the content! Always disappointing to not see the goat though. The goat gets me there
I never realized how cool it was that I knew how to program and run a handful of CNC lathes and mills, I only worked that job for about a year but it's a skill and knowledge set that I'm proud to know.
I love your channel and last year i have been hired as a machinist for a huge 5 axis cnc working with stone, enjoying the job but a massive headache with technical support, my buddy there will enjoy your vjos, definitively recommending him.
I love your warning decals on things 👍
I can't wait for the cam video. Got started on single spindle Braun & Sharts right outta high school. I still lobe them!
I'm just so happy to have found a north American video that pronounces the letter Z properly (zed NOT zee) well done that man.
I'm also going to copy your "Danger do not touch" sign,
Keep em coming
I'm a professional video colorist, and this is my favourite channel on TH-cam. If not for the fun of grading I'd be wrangling one of these for sure. Thx AvE!
I worked at a place where we did a lot of crankshaft grinding. The coolant from those things gets extra flavorful after awhile!
Now I can't stop about the sludge cleanout after who knows how long machining iron of various varieties.
@@sdhlkfhalkjgd i was at a shop that l dont think they ever cleaned out the tanks. They were replacing a pump one day when i was there to pick up some heads. You could smell it two blocks before you got there!
chaw spit and third shift whiz. frothy. and the new guy gets to change the filters. ask me how i know.
@@wrenchmonkey3920
I did some of my apprenticeship at H/P. The 3rd shift was the same. Chaw spit not so much. I always wore extra long rubber gloves.
Cool breakdown!
I've missed these BOLTR vjos
Regarding coolant going rancid, I was surprised that I never thought about it as an infection risk. It took that hand safety video Red Letter Media watched recently to drive this point home for me. Having open cuts when you can be splashed by coolant is not a good idea, it turns out.
So what’s the affect? And what is a good place to find information on this topic. If you don’t mind my asking.
@@zacharylankford4812 you can get a serious infection from rancid coolant if it gets into an open cut
@@semajniffirg230 that’s no good. I’m having a problem with the coolant at work drying my hands out and making the skin crack. Also I’m getting some strange discoloration on my forearms.
Cuts also take AGES to heal up if you get coolant in them.
We used to buy those finger cots (or finger rubbers as we called them) by the gross just to keep the coolant out of nicks and cuts on our fingers. Our coolant tanks were like 5,000 gal, so they tried to get every last day out of the stuff. They used skimmers and dredgers and all sorts of additives to try making it last longer, but it didn't matter much, it was still hell on cuts and scrapes.
I've got a HAAS TM-1.. awesome video.
This video helped me get my GED.
I've worked on a Haas and they are very nice CNCs. It's like being in the future after working with a Fadal for so long!
Great! Now I too can run a CNC thingy! Good luck to you! 👍
Spanks for the tour!
Excited for this series, always looking for new analogies for G54 and G92. Thanks Uncle BF
This is brilliant, thank you. Looking forward to the rest of them :)
Hope you're ok and the family are doing well... Hugs from England 👍
It's so clean inside! They are good enough for what they cost. They aren't the same category as Okuma.
Ayy, no need to measure against tony, he is a man in his own league. We appreciate your (in)competence in different ways :)
Your explanation of this HAAS machine is way more exciting than the Germans that set up our haas machine.
this is so cool. what an amazing machine
This used to work on older Haas machines to run with door open: To run machine with door open:
1. Settings
Go to 7 Parameter Lock (enter 7 then push cursor down) Select "OFF", push enter.
Note: flashing of cursor means that it is not activated, push enter to activate.
2. Go to Parameter 57
Push Emergency Stop in.
Change the "Door Stop SP" from "1" to "0"
3. Settings. Go to 51
"turn Door Hold Override"to "ON"
Parameter 7 is hidden on the newer machines, they don't want people changing those setting anymore :P
This was useful mainly on lathes that I could not see into because of badly scratched glass. That way, I could single block the program and have the feed and speeds turned down to avoid a crash while I was trouble shooting new programs and when operators tried to do more than hit the green go button.. or in many cases... the green crash button.
I was the engineer responsible for all machine and robot programming.
This procedure also automatically activates the Safety Squint mode
Excellent overview, thank you!
You young whippersnappers and your fancy-schmancy CNC machines. Back in my day, we had to hand crank our spindles by hand. Up hill. Both ways. In 4 feet of snow.😂
thanks ave. only took three years to get a proper introduction. looking forward to the series.
sending love from south texas!
Well that CNC is freaking nice! I follow Saunders from NYC CNC. I have the Tormach 1100mx. Great machine but after seeing that 5 axis Haas, I’m seriously drooling. Wow. Nice.
Fantastic video
At least you do videos. This old Tony is almost retired!
That opening is gold
Great video, CNC seems very intimidating, im glad you’re able to put it in English lol
Loved the overview. Thank you.
The way the vector drive controls the power is much like pulse width modulation, PWM, but since the motors are AC it does SPWM, S being senoidal. It simulates an AC current and controls it with the modulated pulses.
I find this freaking amazing!
In addition vectors control uses velocity feedback to control for velocity. Helps keep the torque up under load.
The coolant can get a real nice piquant top note on the older machines that use a lot of way lube. I’ve use a wet dry shop vac to skim the oil off the top of the coolant where we don’t have skimmers. I run mostly Cnc lathes. We’ve got an 80’s era Nakamura Tome lathe that has a magnetic tape drive in the back of the control. And we still make production parts on it.
I learned so much in 16m. thank you
my envy is only exceeded by my ignorance, thanks for tryin to clear up some of the latter
this is the greatest video I've ever seen
Thanks for the nod to Mr. Pete. He deserves it.
I like the shiny metal pokey bit around the high voltage parts 🤪
Great vjo. Look forward to the next one.
Wow! First time someone has talked TO me - not down to me, or up at me. Thanks, Ave
On my Haas TL2 lathe at work, I had a servo drive for my Y axis blow up on me a while back. Running a part followed by a very loud bang and the main 3 phase breaker at the panel tripping. I believe it was about $900 for the single servo drive and I replaced it myself due to the machine being out of warranty. The main machine control cabinet still smells like magic smoke :)
only 900 bucks? I always wondered why Haas parts are so expensive since they are not one of the high end manufacturers. The VF3 I work on recently got a new Vectordrive, 10,000€ (5k if you return the old one) for a part that's essentially a fancy VFD. Prob. died because of a mean crash that tore the belt apart.
Cool instruction! Thanks