Yaskawa has been making motors and drives for a long time, and have made a lot of different kinds, using all manor of controls. Your going to have to give us more information for us to give you a recommendation.
But on the surface I would have to suggest, if there isn't anything wrong with the motors or drives keep them. Mesa makes hardware that can work with what ever you have, but you need to figure out what you have before choosing the right control hardware. Most old Dos controllers I'm familiar with are just software step generators, and as such can usually be replaced by Linuxcnc with a minimum of hardware (most just using a parallel port or 2). ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marius Liebenberg" <[email protected]> To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2015 11:55:55 AM Subject: [Emc-users] Yaskawa or not Hi All I have been asked to upgrade a machine that has a very old control system still running on DOS. It is fitted with Yaskawa SGDB-03VDY1 drives. I cannot seem to find reference to that extract number. There are two 2.9Kw motors and one 0.45Kw. They all have incremental encoders. >From the documentation that I could find I could not see how to drive these things. It looks like a communications protocol that they use. I have to decide how to go about retrofitting this machine. Do I keep the motors (they are still very good) and keep the drives (dont know how to drive). Does Mesa have a solution to drive these? Or do I dump the drives and use another set of drives? What will I use or, Do I dump the lot and start fresh. What will I use in the place of Yaskawa? Has anyone on the forum used these with reasonable success? I would like to go 7i80 so that I can fit an industrial panel mount pc with touch screen. Any thought from the wise ones? ----------------------------- Regards / Groete Marius D. Liebenberg +27 82 698 3251 +27 12 743 6064 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
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