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Mach Discussion => General Mach Discussion => Topic started by: brbeardm on July 19, 2013, 03:28:47 PM
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I want to use Mach3... If I have Baldor DC Servo drive for X & Y, TSD-050-05-2-U running Baldor DC Servo Motors BK-2250's .... I need help finding out how I connect these drives to a PC
To run Mach3...
1. do I need a breakout board... if so what can you recommend?
2. Do I basically have to go from PWM to Step/Dir ??? with a breakout board or something? or is there a board that does PWM from Mach3...
People are telling me I lose "real CNC" or I am not doing "real CNC" with Mach3 and servo drives/servo motors cause the Mach3 and the controller just do Step/Dir ... if it's equal then I guess I don't care... but am I just buying servo to convert it to step/dir...???
help!
Brian ??? ??? ??? ???
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If your servo drives are analogue voltage command only, ie +/-10v command and not capable of Step/Dir then you will need to use one of the external controllers that work with Mach and can control analogue drives.
There are a few,
CSMIO/IP-A
DSPMC
Galil
Kflop with Kanalog.
I use the CSMIO/IP-A on my Chiron FZ12 and it is an excellent choice.
Hood
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Ok, update... I got the Baldor DC Drives that go with the motors... so should be good there... looking at the Galil DMC-21X3 Ethernet controller ... they offer two daughter cards to split out the axis for D-Sub connections ... do I need opto-isolated I/O ? this DMC-21X3 seems to work good with Mach3 and does the servo analog control of the drives...
anything I should look out for?
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I dont know too much about the Galil and Mach, the cost of the Galil and its associated breakouts and connectors was very high so I never went down that road.
You will likely get answers to any questions you have regarding Galil and Mach if you ask on the Galil section of the forum.
Hood