Thanks Kirk , Tom and Jon for the quick replies, and the good suggestions. The time frame is very loose. We have a FADAL 4020 that's been doing all we need for years, and another one that's been dead for years. At the end of last year I mentioned to the machinist that we should probably get another mill running, just to have a backup ... just in case...
About a month later the working FADAL blew a servo drive card. We were operating on the old hand operated mills in the shop for a week, until we found out that the drive cards, though of different sizes between the two machines, were compatible. The FADAL that's not working has an issue either with the tach, or the resolver, and with this economy we don't want to just throw money at the problem. We are also a little slow with work right now, so if I can do something with the spare time I have, that would be good. If we were in a booming economy, I'd probably suggest getting 3 Viper drives, 3 expensive quadrature encoders, and a MESA 5i20 card; but we're not in a booming economy. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
