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Galil / Which servo amplifiers?
« on: June 18, 2009, 04:38:00 PM »
I'm in the planning stages of a retrofit for my 25 year old VMC (the only unreliable machine in my shop).  It is equipped with Fanuc parts and I plan on removing everything electrical, except for the servo motors (Fanuc 'Yellow Cap' 5M (X and Y axes) and 10M (Z axis)). 

I don't want to reuse the drives because I have had some issues with them.

I am planning to use a Galil 18x6 controller with the Mach3 + Galil plugin.  From the Galil manual, it looks like the 18x6 will only output ±10VDC to the servo amplifier.  Is that the only option I have?  I see that the 18x6 will also control steppers with 5V step/dir output; can I output 5V step/dir to control a servo amplifier (such as Rutex or Viper)?

Alternatively, does anyone know of any off-the-shelf ±10VDC servo drives I could use?

Thanks in advance,
Chris Kirchen

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