Gene and Dave,
I have been looking all over for the information I need to do this. I
guess my plan is to take it one step at a time and one circuit at a time
and hope for a good result. Again the initial hope here is to get the
basic machine working and then worry about getting fancy with the
toolchanger and a later fourth axis and probing down the road. The mesa
cards seemed like a good fit based on reading some others successes with
large pieces of equipment. I think Lee's machine is of course the most
specifically related to mine in both the base machine as well as how he did
things. The problem there tho is that he is in England and has three phase
power available and has kept some of the controls input electronics to
allow him to use that whereas I have a very nice three phase converter here
that I intend to wean myself off of and go strictly single phase. The rest
of what he did tho is quite interesting and works well for him. The only
thing he did that I am hoping to avoid is NOT doing a true control setup
for the toolchanger. He basically does a kind of G-code control as I
understand it of the toolchanger command. I hope to setup the toolchanger
as it was from the factory and be able to run it both directions etc...
Other than that his machine seems brilliant and he is saying that he is
getting some very good accuracy and reliability from it altho it has not
been running very long. Here is a link to his nicely powdercoated and
finished machine running, hell he even was able to institute the use of a
pro-renishaw probe. I sincerely hope to be where he is in the near future.
Peace
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSXR3FsN0EE
Pete
On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 1:01 PM, dave <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-11-22 at 12:12 -0500, Pete Matos wrote:
> <snip>
> You might want to browse this:
>
> http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl
>
> search for mazak and you will get all sorts of hits.
>
> also:
>
> http://webpages.charter.net/bengvall/emc/emcconversion.html
>
> I have no idea what the spindle drive is like on that machine but if you
> can make it work it will be well matched to the spindle motor.
>
> It sounds like you are headed in the right direction. Good luck and
> please share your problems and your successes.
>
> Dave
>
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