Todd Zuercher wrote: > Can a Yaskawa servo drive be used with other servo motors? > > <snip> > > I am saw some Yaskawa SGDA-04AS drives on ebay but looking through the > manual I downloaded gives me the impression they are only intended to > work with their motors. Any one have any experience mixing and matching > other motors with this kind of drive? > The ServoPak drives/motors use a proprietary scheme where the commutation data is encoded on the index track of the encoder, so there are only 3 signals from the encoder. This is Yaskawa's own proprietary scheme, and incompatible with anybody else's.
AMC and Copley make industry compatible drives for a variety of motors, although most won't do 230 V. You can check eBay for what models are currently available. Are these brushless motors? If so, they need to provide commutation (Hall) signals. Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
