Re: [Emc-users] Tandem Axes-YY

2008-07-15 Thread Lie Seng-Thok
Rob, Lie, is your system using stepper drivers or 'real' servo drives with encoders? For stepper drives I could draw up the schematics for this (using standard logic circuits) quite easily. I using 4 pcs of Pico univpwm servo drives with Panasonic 200W, incremental encoder 200ppr. Thank

[Emc-users] Tandem Axes-YY

2008-07-14 Thread Lie Seng-Thok
Hello, I just nearly completed the project of retrofitting of CNC router, with tandem configuration on the Y-axes (i.e. 2 motors on the Y movemet). Can I get help from members who had done the setting of homing sequence in HAL for this tandem YY? The controller used is univpwm system from

Re: [Emc-users] Tandem Axes-YY

2008-07-14 Thread Kenneth Lerman
Jon Elson wrote: Ray Henry wrote: Are there swivel joints between the two screws so that the motors can move independent of each other? Excellent point, and no, there do not appear to be any joints between the two sides. (Dr. Lie has sent me photos of the machine.) That is going to

Re: [Emc-users] Tandem Axes-YY

2008-07-14 Thread Ray Henry
On Mon, 2008-07-14 at 13:02 -0400, Kenneth Lerman wrote: Jon Elson wrote: Ray Henry wrote: Are there swivel joints between the two screws so that the motors can move independent of each other? Excellent point, and no, there do not appear to be any joints between the two sides. (Dr.

Re: [Emc-users] Tandem Axes-YY

2008-07-14 Thread Jon Elson
Kenneth Lerman wrote: Jon Elson wrote: Ray Henry wrote: Are there swivel joints between the two screws so that the motors can move independent of each other? Excellent point, and no, there do not appear to be any joints between the two sides. (Dr. Lie has sent me photos of the machine.)

Re: [Emc-users] Tandem Axes-YY

2008-07-14 Thread Peter C. Wallace
] Tandem Axes-YY Jon Elson wrote: I've seen pictures of the machine, it looks quite rigid, a welded steel box-tube frame with round slider ways bolted every 100 - 200 mm. A modestly robust gantry, although it looks like 80-20 extrusion plus several round ways between the two ends. It might