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Galil / Need Servo Motors

« on: April 06, 2011, 09:50:02 AM »

Good morning.  I'm looking at upgrading a few of my mills to AC servo systems.  I want to buy the BE25A20AC AMC analog drives but I'm having trouble sourcing servo motors that will work.  Everything I find is just as much or more than the drive costs.  Is that typical?  Can anyone help me find some cost effective Servo Motors that will work with these drives?  I'd like to have motors that are about .75kW or 1kW power ratings and that have about 2000ppr encoders.  Is this realistic?  Thanks very much.

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General Mach Discussion / My XML

« on: October 13, 2007, 12:54:54 PM »

Brian,
Can you look over this XML file for me and check to see if I have something wrong.  I really don't know what I'm doing with this yet.  I just uninstalled and reinstalled the software because I wasn't getting any reading in the Time in Int.  Now I am, anywhere from 2.9 to 5 something.  I've got the Gecko G340 drives hooked up and they are holding the servo motor.  But, when I jog with the keyboard, the DRO moves but not the motors.  There's still alot about this stuff that I don't know.  It's probably something stupid that I can't find or overlooked, but any help would be appreciated.  Thanks!
-Leith

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General Mach Discussion / Newbie Woes

« on: October 05, 2007, 12:26:10 PM »

I have a couple of problems and I don't know if it's my fault or not.  I am new to the mach3 software and have spent the last week getting it set up and learning to navigate the software.  My machine is using servo motors and the Galil 18x2 card and drives for 3 axis.  I had been using the camsoft program for the last few years.  The first problem I have is the y axis is inverted.  I tried reversing the axis in the homing/limits window, but it doesn't change anything. 
Also, I can't slow jog.  I can shift jog, but when I open the jog tab and change the slow jog rate to say 50%, it doesn't slow jog.  It won't jog at all without the shift key pressed. 
And now, it won't run Gcode.  I don't think I changed anything either to make that not work.  The only thing I did was open the Keyfinder and plug in a gamepad to see if that would let me jog slow.  But, alas, I'm too dumb to make it work.  I'm wondering if I just need to reinstall the software from scratch and start over.  Would having the camsoft software still installed on the same computer cause these kinds of problems?  I'm still in the trial stage so I haven't wanted to uninstall that stuff yet.  But I do really like may of the features in this software.  Any help will be greatly appreciated.  Thanks!
-Leith