I'd be happy to show how the conversion goes. I need to do a writeup on the lathe I just finished too. I have yaskawa encoder modules written for mesa and hostmot2 drivers for those in linuxcnc. I'm getting ready to publish them soon.
The machine is being delivered next weekend so I haven't gotten to tear into it yet. From what I can tell it may have the same bolt pattern as the 900W yaskawa servos that I used on the lathe. If so I'll be using them. Those yaskawas perform so very well with the 8i20 and 2097152 count encoders. On Sat, Feb 27, 2021 at 12:27 PM Feral Engineer <[email protected]> wrote: > Curt, > > Can you please document your progress with the Fadal? There's one at my old > school I want to dig into eventually with some of the students. It's also a > VMC 15. > > Thanks! > > Phil > > > On Sat, Feb 27, 2021, 8:09 AM Curtis Dutton <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I've recently purchased a Fadal VMC 15 and I'll be retrofitting it and > > replacing servos and electronics. The last machine I retrofitted was an > old > > miyano gang lathe and I'm driving the spindle and servos with 8i20's. I > > just love them they are great. > > > > Is there any plan for a larger capacity 8i20? I wish I didnt have to buy > > vfd's for large spindles and could use a super size 8i20. say up to 10hp > or > > so. > > > > Has this ever been discussed before? > > > > -Curt > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Emc-developers mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers > > > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-developers mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers > _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
