Hello to all! A few months ago our Mazak spindle died and we replaced it with a new one of the brand Yaskawa. The lathe is behaving well but it's a good idea to replace the control with a LCNC machine following a planned schedule just to avoid the emergency of replacing it in case of a sudden failure on the Mazak original cpu.
I've seen that there's a link on the wiki with a VMC Mazak retrofitted to LinuxCNC. (http://webpages.charter.net/bengvall/emc/emcconversion.html). >From what I can read on that link and what I found about the DC servos on our Mazak, both work the same way comparing the phase to eliminate the following error. I've got some info on the manuals that came with my lathe that says the following: X Axis Servo Motor Z Axis Servo Motor HD81-125 HD101-12 0.8 Kw - 1.5 Kva 1.1 Kw - 2.2 Kva Here are two links to pictures of the drivers to see if there's a possibility to use them with LinuxCNC or if it's better to replace the drivers for simpler ones. http://imageshack.com/a/img537/5573/lgfKjB.jpg http://imageshack.com/a/img743/4134/rk1IuG.jpg What I find a little strange is the power of the motors, I thought that for the size of this lathe 0.8 and 1.1 kw it's not that much, but may be that's because I'm not used to work with servos, I only worked with steppers so far. Although the ballscrews on both axis are really easy to move by hand so this might be the right specs for the motors. Sorry for the long description but my question is: Is it possible to use these drivers? or is it going to be a lot of trouble to get them to work with LinuxCNC?? Thanks as always for your help! -- *Leonardo Marsaglia*. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=157005751&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
