On Monday 12 February 2018 00:12:21 jeremy youngs wrote: > It's a brown boveri 2.5 kw servo motor with a 10 v /krpm tachometer.
That will function to tell you how fast its spinning alright, but there is no spindle position feedback available from such a device, so its not usable to cut threads where synchronous motion is needed. The omron with its ABZ style pulses, can tell linuxcnc exactly where in its rotation it is, updating the info in my case as often as 350,000 times a second or nearly 15000 times a spindle turn in low gear. Thats way overkill but sure precise. Had I known the gear ratio between between the motor and spindle was as high as it was, I would have bought a 250 or 256 line/turn encoder, it would have been plenty. 1000 line was overkill, but the .hal file & a couple mux4's, and sum2's took care of that rather precisely. In my case I still use the Z (index) from my old setup that used opto-interrupters, and the AB quadrature signals come from the omron, passing thru a pair of rs485 gismo's, dollar each from fleabay to make good TTL level signals then that submitted to the opto stripped inputs of the bob. Such a lashup works well with a 5i25 interface, and would likely work just as well with a 7i90HD if you needed the plethora of gpio (72 minus whatever the firmware loaded uses) the 7i90 has. I've added lots of "gingerbread" stuff on the bigger lathe, and still have around 22 uncommitted i/o's I could use to run a coffeepot, the lights, lube pumps, coolant/mist pumps, yadda yadda. I already have all the motor power controlled by the motion enable button on linuxcnc, so its all off for the night with a poke at the f2 key. Having i/o to throw away? Priceless. Where the 5i25 is protected from high voltages by the bob, the 7i90 is not, its basically its own bob, so figure on using a 7i42TA on each 50 pin i/o the 7i90 has 3 of for protection against i/o noise that exceeds the 7i90's 3.3 volt ratings. The 7i42TA also gives you nice screw terminals to hook everything up to. I stacked mine above the 7i90 and already had a bunch of old scsi-ii cables that I cut down and reassembled for the 2 to 4" 50 pin cables that took. > I'm running a selema 1224 servo amplifier , at 100 dc . I still have > some room for more voltage but my transformer cabbaging skills aren't > as solid as my ability to find drives and motors. Old but solid state PA amplifiers in the kilowatt of audio range make good sources of such critters. And an old ex(now long retired like me) employee has a nose for power toroids that I've taken advantage of on a couple occasions. My psu for TLM's spindle is the remains of a Phase Linear 750 watter, and I've 4 of a 350 watt toroid stacked in series and paralleled for the G0704's 90 volt 1 hp. So I'm banging it with around 125 DC. Pico Systems PWM-Servo drivers are serving as the controllers for both. Just tell Jon you need the spindle motor version as he makes 2 slightly different versions of it. > I may well try one > of these for an index pulse, thanks for the heads up about low speed > instability and the positive feedback on the omron. I need to figure > out how to mount one of them in this contortionist box called mill > head. Time to turn in , good night A pix might get some suggestions. -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
