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Mach Discussion => General Mach Discussion => Topic started by: rbrintle on October 24, 2014, 08:44:11 AM

Title: servo motors
Post by: rbrintle on October 24, 2014, 08:44:11 AM
hi , im looking for recommendations for the best breakout board for panasonic ac servo motors and drives , im getting ready to retrofit an older waterjetpro waterjet machine using mach3 .

thanks
r brintle
Title: Re: servo motors
Post by: rdean on October 24, 2014, 09:28:34 AM
Do the drives except Step and direction?

If so the ESS from Warp9 is my choice.

Ray
Title: Re: servo motors
Post by: Hood on October 24, 2014, 03:05:25 PM
All depends on what you are looking for, my thoughts are the likes of the ESS etc are good but for a more industrial rated machine a better option is one of the CSMIO products.
My first choice is the CSMIO/IP-A but that requires that your servo drives can accept analogue command (+/-10v)
If they are only Step/Dir then the CSMIO/IP-S does that, just the IP-A has a few more benefits.
If the I/O requirements are not so high then there is the lower end CSMIO/IP-M which again is Step/Dir.


Hood
Title: Re: servo motors
Post by: mc on October 24, 2014, 04:34:38 PM
I'll sneak in and recommend Dynomotion's KFlop combined with a Kanalog, however it does involve a bit more knowledge to setup than the above options. It is however far more powerful and opens up lots more options of what can be acheived.
Title: Re: servo motors
Post by: Hood on October 25, 2014, 02:10:42 PM
Meant to say CS-Lab have a macro for the water jet for breakthrough for use with their controllers, not sure if the IP-M is included so better ask if you are considering it.
I dont have a water jet, never used one, so how well the macro works I have no idea ;)
Anyway here is the info.
http://www.cs-lab.eu/en/artykul-123-Macro_for_breaking_through_material__WATERJET.html

Hood