Panaceabeachbum,
relieved to see you posting again, was wondering how the turret worked out, I was hoping that I hadnt killed you with my poor attempts at VB and PLC Ladders
ziga
I am using Allen Bradley DSD and Giddings and Lewis DSA drives (same thing) got them from UK ebay, they dont come up very often in the UK but when they do they go cheap. As an example I just got Brett (Chaoticone) a 4075 motor a few days ago, it cost the equivilent of $26 with $16 shipping, it will cost 3 times that to send it to the USA for him though LOL
On the lathe I have 4075 motors, they are 10Nm continuous torque and I have them connected 1:1, on the Beaver Mill I am doing I have 4030 motors which are only 3.5Nm continuous but should be more than enough. I also got a nice big AC Servo from eBay that I am planning on using for the Mills spindle motor, it is 5.5Kw and has a continuous torque of 18Nm and a peak of 55Nm. I got the motor for $160 but had to buy a smaller motor to rob the encoder from as it had a resolver on it. I also had to buy a big drive and could only find one in the USA and that cost me $350
Not worked out how I will do it yet but I needed the servo on the mills spindle so I can build a toolchanger, need the positioning that a servo can provide, also rigid tapping will hopefully be an option in the near future, maybe not on this version of Mach but on the Industrial version that Brian and co are working on.
Hood