Thinking aloud... I have been playing with an MA860H stepper drive which seems to work well enough for my mill. http://wallacecompany.com/ma860h/ http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/Shizuoka/
I have an Antek toroidal transformer that is feeding 75 VAC to the drive. The drive has an input limit of 80 VAC or 110 VDC. Although, to feed three drives, I'll need a bigger transformer to supply 15 Amps or more. I can use a 60Hz big iron transformer, but these are big, heavy and expensive to purchase and ship. I could use multiple toroids, but these are expensive. Then I got to thinking. What about a buck converter to convert mains (120 or 240 VAC) to mains DC to high Hz AC to let's say 90 VDC? Or more simply, pump the useful part of the mains AC into a large capacitor in a way that maintains the DC voltage I need? This sounds a little like an SCR circuit, such as a light dimmer, universal motor speed controller, or SCR DC welder. This might be a way to leverage a cheap second hand commodity device to a specialty purpose. (But keeping in mind that common converters don't like their outputs switched.) So, what are some ways of feeding roughly 90 VDC or 70 VAC at 15 Amps to motor drives from 240 VAC mains? -- Kirk Wallace http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/ http://www.wallacecompany.com/E45/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ New Year. New Location. New Benefits. New Data Center in Ashburn, VA. GigeNET is offering a free month of service with a new server in Ashburn. Choose from 2 high performing configs, both with 100TB of bandwidth. Higher redundancy.Lower latency.Increased capacity.Completely compliant. http://p.sf.net/sfu/gigenet _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
