What year are they? and what software version? (sorry I am so insistent but I am also trying to tie my experiences into the whole story)
j. On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 5:30 PM, Viesturs Lācis <[email protected]>wrote: > I am using them with analog signal. > There are no add-in interface cards. > > Viesturs > > 2011/9/27 Jan de Kruyf <[email protected]>: > > What is the interface? Modbus? SERCOOS? > > > > j. > > > > On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 4:37 PM, Viesturs Lācis < > [email protected]>wrote: > > > >> 2011/9/27 Jan de Kruyf <[email protected]>: > >> > Hallo Viesturs, > >> > what on earth is wrong with them. Have you got the tuning software > from > >> > Kollmorgen for these things? > >> > >> Yes, I have the Drive.exe; BTW it runs very nicely in Wine. > >> > >> Well, they are very nice servo drives... when they are working. I am > >> having difficulties with that. > >> Now I have 2 drives working and 2 drives are misbehaving: > >> 1) I purchased spare servo drive on eBay. When I received it, it > >> turned out that communication with PC is not working. In early spring > >> I sent it to TGDrives to fix that. They fixed it (at least they say > >> that they changed communications processor). Now I put the drive in > >> machine, tried to configure it, but Drive application did not find it, > >> so communication still not working. But it should, since it has not > >> been used since I received it from CZ; > >> 2) the other misbehaving drive is my usual case - I get F25 > >> (commutation error) error, I swap 2 servo drives to determine, if the > >> problem is in drive (it goes together with drive) or in cables/motors > >> (should appear also on swapped drive). The problem turns out to be in > >> servo drive, so I send it to TGDrives, they _do not_ find the problem, > >> I pay 40EUR diagnostics fee, they send the drive back and it works. > >> After some time some other of the three drives shows F25, I send it to > >> TGDrives, they find nothing, send it back and the drive works. > >> > >> I have no idea, what is the cause for these F25 errors, maybe I have bad > >> aura. > >> > >> Conclusion - those drives are great, when they are working. > >> Unfortunately they have so much functionality inside, that there are > >> so many things that can break/cause error. Since EMC needs almost > >> nothing of that functionality, I thought that changing them to some > >> simpler servo drive, like 8i20, would be the way to go. I have spent > >> more than a year trying to get that machine up and running. I thought > >> that I am very close to finish with all the work on mechanics and > >> electronics, but now the servo issue is messing everything up. > >> Probably I am simply lacking skill and experience with such a > >> complicated electronics, I do not know, that is why I would like to go > >> with something simplier. > >> > >> > I just fixed a setup with 5 of these animals on a SERCOS loop (and > >> another 4 > >> > Indramats) They worked very well once I had the > >> > Sercos part nailed. > >> > Dont know if customer would be interested to keep spares. Prob to much > >> > money. > >> > >> My offer is 1000EUR for all four of them. I think that 250EUR/piece is > >> very cheap, compared to eBay prices. > >> For 300EUR/piece I can send all of them to TGDrives for diagnostics so > >> that they can give their statement, if there is something to be fixed > >> or if the drives are fine. That way the buyer would get qualified > >> opinion from 3rd party about the condition of the drives. > >> If You purchase them for 300EUR/piece, I do not care, for what price > >> would You sell them to Your customer :)) > >> > >> Viesturs > >> > >> > >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >> All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a > >> definitive record of customers, application performance, security > >> threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes > >> sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. 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