Accuwinder CW-15B Coil Winder manual? - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: Fixed_Until_Broken
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: August 17, 2023, 01:38:49 am
content: Does anyone here have the manual for an Accuwinder CW-15B Coil Winder? I ended up with one for the low price of hauling out of the building at work today. Our Magfab guys got tired of finding a new place to store it in the factory. I hope to find a manual for writing some software for it. It looks like it's just GPIB, maybe? No one at work knew how to use this coil winder anymore. It's been in storage for so long. We apparently had 2 of them at 1 point. I actually can't find much information about these on the internet.Any info would be helpful. I think I am missing the tensioner for it. Attached are some pics.

author: Fixed_Until_Broken
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: August 22, 2023, 12:09:41 am
content: I found a little bit more about this and got some more parts for it. I now have the tensioners for it. I still cant find a manual for it.The port on it is a parallel printer, not GPIB. I forgot those parallel ports ever looked like that. I also have the software for it. I will need to transfer it off the dinosaur Windows 98 computer to upload. It looks like the motor diver might be dead in it. This weekend I will pull the stepper motor. The software will count the turns if I hand-turn it, but the motor won't turn on its own.As I figure more out about this I would like to keep the thread going just because there isn't much info on the internet about it. I would like to get it working as designed but I will likely make my own controller for it later down the road.

author: shibaribound
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: January 04, 2025, 11:07:41 pm
content: I just acquired one of these. I don't have the computer, software or manual. I would greatly appreciate any info and resources to get the software.

author: Fixed_Until_Broken
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: January 05, 2025, 12:17:34 am
content: Yes, that's me. I forgot I had the computer at 1 point. I didn't think I ever did. I looked and don't have any computers that fit the description (windows 98), but I have some old hard drives. I'll check them and see if any of the hard drives have 98 and the software.Reading over the old posts, it does refresh my memory of it though. It was a little black industrial computer. I think the program was command line based, but I might be confused about that. I am almost positive I scrapped the PC but still have the harddrive. I never did find a manual for it. Give me a day or so to check these hard drives but I am pretty sure I remember which one it is.

author: shibaribound
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: January 05, 2025, 01:30:20 am
content: Lol. Small world. Thank you! If it will run on a 32bit system I have a few old PC's laying around that may work.

author: Fixed_Until_Broken
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: January 05, 2025, 02:23:31 am
content: Better news! I do still have the PC it was out in the shed 😂 The built in Ethernet doesn't seem to have a driver installed so I couldn't connect over the network to it. I don't have any blank CDs to burn a driver for the NEC or for USB thumb drives so I couldn't pull the data of it to post it online. The computer didn't want to boot the first couple of times I tried. So it might not last too long. I definitely recommend getting the files off it and maybe post them here for anyone else that ends up looking to get one of these up and running.

author: shibaribound
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: January 05, 2025, 04:47:14 am
content: You're the best! I'm sure I will be able to manage getting it copied. I will post it once I do. Check your DM.

author: coppercone2
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 05, 2025, 04:53:29 am
content: what does the next generation of coil winder have if that is obsolete?