Re: [Emc-users] Control of AC motor in antenna rotor

2008-11-29 Thread Mark Wendt (Contractor)
At 12:07 PM 11/28/2008, you wrote: Having a UPS(s) to bridge the time between mains outage to generator output was part of the plan. I would bridge just the equipment needed. If I can boot the generator controller in a minute or two, it won't need to be on all of the time. I'd like to save energy

Re: [Emc-users] Control of AC motor in antenna rotor

2008-11-29 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 29 November 2008, Mark Wendt (Contractor) wrote: At 12:07 PM 11/28/2008, you wrote: Having a UPS(s) to bridge the time between mains outage to generator output was part of the plan. I would bridge just the equipment needed. If I can boot the generator controller in a minute or two, it

Re: [Emc-users] Control of AC motor in antenna rotor

2008-11-29 Thread Roland Jollivet
Not quite. Most UPS's around 2KVA and below are 'off-line', ie straight feed-through. Far far cheaper to make. You pay through your ears for an on-line UPS as it requires a full power down and up converter. Regards Roland 2008/11/29 Mark Wendt (Contractor) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kirk,

Re: [Emc-users] Control of AC motor in antenna rotor

2008-11-29 Thread Rafael Skodlar
Roland Jollivet wrote: Not quite. Most UPS's around 2KVA and below are 'off-line', ie straight feed-through. Far far cheaper to make. You pay through your ears for an on-line UPS as it requires a full power down and up converter. Every UPS has a full power down and up converter. How else

Re: [Emc-users] Control of AC motor in antenna rotor

2008-11-29 Thread Roland Jollivet
There is the wiki on it, but even that does not explain it properly. If you have a look at this; http://www.pcrite.com/store/product_info.php?cPath=24products_id=360 which is typical of what you find in a computer store, you will find a single, underrated inductor inside. During normal use, the

Re: [Emc-users] Control of AC motor in antenna rotor

2008-11-29 Thread Rafael Skodlar
Roland Jollivet wrote: There is the wiki on it, but even that does not explain it properly. If you have a look at this; http://www.pcrite.com/store/product_info.php?cPath=24products_id=360 You don't put serious servers on such a UPS. I was thinking about smart UPS that power one or more

Re: [Emc-users] Control of AC motor in antenna rotor

2008-11-28 Thread Jim Coleman
could you use 3 outputs from a parport to control the sync. motors? an enable pin, and then 2 of them on H bridges pulsing 90 degrees out of phase to run the motors? also, am i missing something big here, or would these motors run kinda like bipolar steppers, but designed to turn constant speed

Re: [Emc-users] Control of AC motor in antenna rotor

2008-11-28 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Fri, 2008-11-28 at 19:45 -0500, Jim Coleman wrote: could you use 3 outputs from a parport to control the sync. motors? an enable pin, and then 2 of them on H bridges pulsing 90 degrees out of phase to run the motors? That is close to what I did here:

Re: [Emc-users] Control of AC motor in antenna rotor

2008-11-27 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 27 November 2008, Kirk Wallace wrote: On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 23:00 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: ... snip Emc could probably be massaged into doing it, and there would be a certain cachet to the geekiness of it all when bragging rights are being displayed to the visiting Joe Sixpacks,

Re: [Emc-users] Control of AC motor in antenna rotor

2008-11-27 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Thu, 2008-11-27 at 11:09 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: ... snip Somewhere in that controller there should be the equ of a turn left or turn right switch. That is where I'd hit it with a pair of reed relays driven by the pc. The older version had them obvious, right in the dial you turned.

Re: [Emc-users] Control of AC motor in antenna rotor

2008-11-27 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 27 November 2008, Kirk Wallace wrote: On Thu, 2008-11-27 at 11:09 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: ... snip Somewhere in that controller there should be the equ of a turn left or turn right switch. That is where I'd hit it with a pair of reed relays driven by the pc. The older version

Re: [Emc-users] Control of AC motor in antenna rotor

2008-11-26 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 26 November 2008, Bob Freeman wrote: Hello, Am interested in using EMC2 to control some traditional antenna rotators, like the Alliance U-100. These are AC motors that are turned on/off and reversed using relays (have known these to be called bang-bang controllers). I would like to

Re: [Emc-users] Control of AC motor in antenna rotor

2008-11-26 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 23:00 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: ... snip Emc could probably be massaged into doing it, and there would be a certain cachet to the geekiness of it all when bragging rights are being displayed to the visiting Joe Sixpacks, but why? It actually works pretty well as is. :-)