2014-06-27 17:08 GMT+03:00 Christian Stöveken <christian.stoeve...@gmail.com>: > Here is the doodle link to find the "right" weekend.
Christian, I have events in September 21 and October 11 and need time to prepare for them, so I would appreciate, if you could add October 17-18 and/or October 24-25 to the calendar. > I was looking for a way to make it even more interesting for everybody > coming > and maybe advance the 6-axis robot side of LinuxCNC. > > So I got this idea to buy these old ABB robots from the local scrap machine > dealer > to convert and give away at cost for anybody who wants one. I definitely want one (no comments, if I actually need it), so I would appreciate a little more details about them. Any idea about the load capacity (1 kg? 5kg? They definitely do not seem like capable of anything more than 10 kg). What is their current condition, especially wave reducers (harmonic gears)? Do I understand correctly that you got only bare robots, no control cabinets? Any ideas about motor parameters - voltage and current? What kind of position feedback is there - resolver, incremental or absolute encoder? After some cursing about chinese manuals, in the end I got those Kinco servo drives to work, and they seem to work fine, once the braking resistor is added, and their prices seem nice: http://www.zappautomation.co.uk/electrical-products/servo-systems/ac-and-dc-brushless-servo-drivers/cd-range-344.html I do not know of any other options in this price range with 220 VAC input, which allows to save on power supply. I used them without Hall sensor feedback, I have config backup that worked with those motors from waterjet (the one that pleased folks with white smoke went to rewinding and was back in service soon after the event) and could share some basic advice about them. Viesturs ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open source business process management suite built on Java and Eclipse Turn processes into business applications with Bonita BPM Community Edition Quickly connect people, data, and systems into organized workflows Winner of BOSSIE, CODIE, OW2 and Gartner awards http://p.sf.net/sfu/Bonitasoft _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
