Sounds like you have it figured out! Just need to get the new drive installed and running. Nice.. :-)
Dave On 7/18/2014 4:20 PM, Leonardo Marsaglia wrote: > 2014-07-18 12:19 GMT-03:00 Dave Cole <linuxcncro...@gmail.com>: > >> Before you buy that new drive I would try and fake out the rest of the >> controls so they don't see the alarm signal and begin to function. >> That way you can buy the new drive knowing that you can get everything >> functional after the swap. >> > Well, today we just finished doing the testing of the signals. Thanks for > the advice off course Dave :) > > Turns out, all the inputs and outputs on the T1 work with 24 VDC. We fooled > the CNC and the alarm dissapeared, so now it's functional, with the > exception of the spindle. We tested the command velocity voltage and it's 0 > to 10 VDC. There's another pin for direction so it's pretty simple to > replace the original drive. > > Fortunately the only delay is going to be the arrival of the VFD because > I'm buying it from a supplier on the US, and I have to wait 3 or 4 days for > it to arrive to Argentina, but anyway so far great news. > > The plan of converting the lathe to LinuxCNC is still on the go, because > once we have it turning again we're going to start gathering all the data > and boards necessary to make the conversion. The critical part here is to > define how the DC servo drives work, because the idea is to mantain the > originals, because the are working great. > > I'll be telling you how this is going! But as always thank you guys for > being so kind and helpful! > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Want fast and easy access to all the code in your enterprise? Index and search up to 200,000 lines of code with a free copy of Black Duck Code Sight - the same software that powers the world's largest code search on Ohloh, the Black Duck Open Hub! Try it now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bds _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
