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Mach Discussion => General Mach Discussion => Topic started by: ra on March 10, 2011, 02:01:42 PM
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Hello,
Does anyone know roughly what would be involved in switching from a Centroid m39 control system to mach3 in terms of boards etc?
Thanks for any help.
Rick
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Do you know if the drives take or can take Step/Dir signals or are they analogue +-10v control?
Hood
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I am not sure but will find out a.s.a.p.
Thanks
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Just spoke to our machine guy and he said we were analog +-10v. Also he thought that mach 3 did not support servo yet. Does anyone know if that is true?
Thanks,
Rick
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I have AC servos on my lathe and mills;)
What I have however is Allen Bradley servo drives that can accept, amongst other things, Step/Dir signals.
It is still possible for you to use your analogue amps but you would need to use Galil or DSPMC or Kflop/Kanalog to interface them to Mach.
Hood
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See http://ajaxcnc.com/ Thats a mach based kit just for centroid.