Hitachi Seiki VM-40 Retrofit

7i84 installed and wiring completed except the comms.

Panel is basically completed. Going to mount the panel, and start on the control panel

That has got to be one of the neatest wiring jobs I have seen.

(But I cringe as I hope--for your sake--you have service loops inside your wire channels. I can speak from experience when I say that it the wire that always breaks seems to always be the shortest wire with no service loop.)

tenaja wrote: That has got to be one of the neatest wiring jobs I have seen.

(But I cringe as I hope--for your sake--you have service loops inside your wire channels. I can speak from experience when I say that it the wire that always breaks seems to always be the shortest wire with no service loop.)

THANKS,

hehe, Yeah I know what you mean. I have been down that road before. There is loops inside the panduit.I think I used too small of panduit. The loops take up alot of room, but there was not enough real estate on the board with what I wanted to use. It is ok though, when everything is wired, the panduit will be at about 95% full.

I may run out of inputs, they go real fast. I have already used up 16 on the 7i77 and have not yet got to motion type inputs. I still have 16 on the 7i77 and 32 on the 7i84. I may be short on realys also. I only have 32 total. 10 is reserved for tool changer and I have used 9 already and have allotted out of that 9 for Drive enables. Anyway, I am working through that now.

Still haven't decided how I want to revamp the control.

As previously noted, nice wiring. Wish I hadn't seen it though. You just added to my OCD and hours (days?) to my upcoming rebuild. Interesting project. Thanks for posting.

If you want OCD, consider cable lacing.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable_lacing

Rework is cut and re-lace, but it does look nice.

It makes no sense at all to use it in a CNC machine, that would be silly,
picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/NivmHU8OuX...pFm0?feat=directlink

andypugh wrote: If you want OCD, consider cable lacing.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable_lacing

Rework is cut and re-lace, but it does look nice.

It makes no sense at all to use it in a CNC machine, that would be silly,
picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/NivmHU8OuX...pFm0?feat=directlink

Yeah lacing looks nice but a whole lot a work. I remember working on sonar cabinets. All laced wiring. Really neat job but tough tracing wires and troubleshooting. I could never get it back the way it was....lol