Make USB Emulator for Embroidery Machines

In the Embroidery industrial, there are many machines that output hundreds of thousands of dollars of production each and every month. Those Embroidery machines are still very good for doing production, however, the operating system is being loaded from floppy disk drives that are still loaded from either 3.5 inch floppy disks. Many of the manufacturers are no longer in business to support the equipment, however and  the machinery that is built to run from floppies that is still in production today. If the embroidery design files are able to be stored on say a flash drive or USB drive, through a floppy disk drive emulator, the equipment could be keep running for the long haul. Manufacturers can not afford to spend a half a million dollars on a brand new machine. The best thing would be to put a usb floppy drive emulator on old embroidery machine to do away with the old floppy drives . 

Make USB floppy Emulator drive breathes new life into your Embroidery machines

When using the USB flash on your computer, it will look like another drive that you simply copy embroidery files to or save them directly from your software. It's quick and simple and, best yet.  The USB Stick at the USB Floppy Emulator replaces the old diskette entirely. USB memory components have long life spans and high capacities. You'll able to store up to 100 floppies content on one single USB memory stick. USB flash drives can be used over and over. And, while the capacity of flash disks continues to grow.  You can keep a collection of flash drives for very little cost and you can get them almost anywhere.

Most USB floppy Emulator drives  works with most Tajima, Happy, Barudan, SWF, Melco, Toyota, Brother, and other textile and embroidery machines that use a floppy drive. Some machines have a bezel over the floppy drive with a wide narrow slot for a disk to slide through that may not have space for a USB flash drive. There over in such a case, it is necessary to modify the bezel or remove it.

How to format your USB stick for USB floppy Emulator drives

• If you have Windows XP, make sure your USB stick is 2GB or less. No limitation on Windows 7 or using our special format program.
• In the My Computer (for OS Windows XP) / Computer (for OS Windows Vista/7) window in the Device with Removable Storage section, right-click the USB drive which is required to be formatted
• Insert your USB flash drive into an open USB slot on your computer. Wait a few seconds to initialize the USB stick.
• When the USB stick is ready, a new disk drive will appear on your list of disk drives. It may be called USB, or Removable Drive, or the brand name. It may be show as drive E:, or drive F, or some other drive letter. Just  right-click on the new USB stick entry and select FORMAT.

• There'll be give a few format options. In the FILE SYSTEM option change it to say "FAT" or "FAT16". Do NOT choose "FAT32". If you do not have these options, then try to use our other format program, or Windows 7.
• You may click the Quick Format option ON.
• Click START, and the format will finish shortly. (this process deletes all data on USB stick) 
• Finnished
• Load your USB stick with your embroidery data files.

The cost of these USB emulators for embroidery machine are vary considerably. There are pros and cons to each price of the floppy disk drive emulators. Some have more options than others. Certainly some of them are significantly more expensive than others, but that is not the only criteria. One thing, he operation of your embroidery machine is no different than before. You use the same menus and commands to load your embroidery designs on machine with  USB Emulator.

Replace Floppy to USB Emulator for Embroidery Machine : The Advantages

There are many advantages replace Floopy to USB Emulator for your Embroidery Machine. It is definite that traditional floppy drives will soon not be available in the markets for sale and for use because of its small storing capacity, and its short life-time. The USB Floppy Emulator replaces the old diskette entirely. The old floppy disk drive is replaced 1:1. USB stick components have long life spans and high capacities. The new USB floppy Emulator and USB stick components are practically immune to impacts from magnetic fields, dust or shock, use of them avoids loss of data due to old floppy disks. The contents on 100 floppies can easily be placed on one single USB Stick. Most USB floppy for embroidery machine supports up to 100 disks per USB stick drive. The virtual floppy disks can be easily selected via the up-/down-buttons of the usb emulator, and the LED display shows which disc is currently loaded. That all saves a lot of time and costs.

When you plan to purchase a USB Emulator drive for your Embroidery machines, please answer the following questions before you order :

1. Can you take a floppy disk formatted in your machine, and put it in your home or office Windows computer and read the contents with Windows Explorer?
2. Do you know if your machine uses DOS-compatible files?
3. If we doesn't know which USB Floppy drive you need: what is the make and model of your machine? also, what is the model of your floppy disk drive? 
4. How many pins are on the back of your original floppy drive? Is it a typical grey cable with 34 pins or 26 pins? Is it a flat white cable that is miniature and hard to see? Does it have a separate 4-pin power connector? Please also note where PIN #1 is on the floppy drive; a red stripe on the ribbon may be a hint.

You may also read Step by step replace Floppy to USB Emulator article.

Because compatibility is not 100%. Make sure you have at least two different USB sticks,  It is helpful if the USB sticks are 2GB or less and choose FAT or USB FAT16 format. Do not choose FAT32. It's not a requirement if you have Windows 7 or special usb  stick format program.

Now you can start to order from USB Emulator web shopping cart.  Few USB  Emulator suppliers from China, India, Germany and USA have introduced a conversion kit which will solve the purpose to the Embroidery companies who need to upgrade their old machines to support usb using floppy to usb upgrade kits. 

Replaces Embroidery Machine's Floppy Drive to USB Emulator

The floppy drive on your computer stopped working? Cannot write embroidery design files to floppy drive on your embroidery machines? Most of the floppy drive is no longer manufactured. The solution is replace the old floppy drive from your embroidery machine with the new USB emulator drive in its place. It is easy for changing floppy to USB and use your existing usb flash drive to transfer your designs to machine. There is no need for additional changes to your system or embroidery machine, besides removing the existing floppy drive and replacing it with this USB Emulator.

How to replace your floppy drive from your embroidery machine to USB? 

Step by step replace Floppy to USB Emulator:

• Unplug the machine from any power.
• Disconnect all cables from the control head.
• Remove the plastic covers (4 screws on the back)
• Remove 2 screws from the bracket that holds the floppy drive. 
• Disconnect cables from Floppy drive.
• Remove floppy drive from holding bracket
• Install USB drive in holding bracket and plug cables into USB Drive. 

When installing the USB Floppy into the host machine, please ensure that PIN1 of the 34‐pin data cable. If the USB Floppy data cable is plugged backwards, there is a chance to damage the unit.

• Some host embroidery machine manufacturers may did not use the RED stripe correctly, and so it may be on either side at random.  In this case, please follow the ribbon cable to the motherboard socket, and there will be writing, silkscreen, on the circuit board that says 1 or 34 or both.  Follow pin 1 from there. 
• Reinstall Holding bracket with USB
• Put the plastic covers back on.
• everything back in.
• Turn machine

From now you can load embroidery design files from USB flash drive and transfer it to your design machine. No more waste of time and precious resources as you will ever require floppies ever again. By replace floppy to USBr you will have a secure and guaranteed long term reliable solution to your problem of transferring data to your industrial machines.

The embrodiery machine brands have their own peculiarities so it is necessary to make sure the correct USB Emulator unit is supplied. In most cases it is as simple as removing the floppy drive to usb emulator works at most design machines e.g : Barudan, Tajima, SWF, ZSK, Toyota ect. You will see the plugs on the back of the floppy drive and the USB Emulator are exactly the same.