On 25 April 2013 15:20, propcoder <[email protected]> wrote: > 1. buy and use another servo drives. Mesa 8i20 (2200W 3 Phase Amplifier)
5i23 + 7i49 + 7i44 + 6 x 8i20 would work (and is very much like my setup) but that's $1628 (plus, i suspect, tax and import duties) Not a cheap option unless you can make money back on the existing hardware. (PLC Center have a single Reiss IRT listed at $1440, but I wouldn't read too much into that) > Will it be enough, just not at full power It depends which motor it is, whether you would be losing slew speed (maybe unimportant) or end up with a robot that can't lift its own arm (which would be embarrassing) > 2. reverse-engineer the protocol of existing electronics, copy and use it > 3. program chips on servo boards to work like I need > 4. find points where to connect to to control obvious electronics like > transistor HI/LO inputs, disconnect existing parts and connect mesa > cards with hostmot2 > > What do you think? I think I would put a lot of effort into 2,3 and 4 before trying 1. -- atp If you can't fix it, you don't own it. http://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try New Relic Now & We'll Send You this Cool Shirt New Relic is the only SaaS-based application performance monitoring service that delivers powerful full stack analytics. Optimize and monitor your browser, app, & servers with just a few lines of code. Try New Relic and get this awesome Nerd Life shirt! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic_d2d_apr _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
