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General Mach Discussion / Is the motor diameter more important than voltage?

« on: April 28, 2011, 05:11:15 PM »

I am looking at other drives becasue the Dugong is not available right now and is back-ordered.

One of the other manufacturers just told me that I needed a larger and more expensive drive because the diameter of the motor is the criteria for the drive, not the rated current.

This is something I am not familiar with.  My servo motors are right under  maximum for their drive.  According  to their specification manual  their driver can handle more than a  20%  over-voltage.

This is confusing. Can someone line me out on this?

Thanks,
JAckal

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Power supply question

« on: April 26, 2011, 01:15:03 PM »

How would that affect  the performance? The servos are rated at 90vdc and I am running 85vdc.  If It was cut in half that would leave 42.42vdc.

Thanks,
JAckal

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Power supply question

« on: April 26, 2011, 09:36:48 AM »

Thanks Ostie.

For the amount in savings on the drives would it be feasible to buy/build a new power source?
Would the 5+ volts really make that big of a difference of the performance on the servos?

Thanks,
JAckal

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General Mach Discussion / Power supply question

« on: April 25, 2011, 09:32:52 PM »

 Hello,

I am having trouble with the availability of the Dugong drives. Mine have been on order since March, but they do have the Whales in stock.

The power supply transformer in my Hurco now is  60 volts x ( 1.414 bridge rectifier) = 84.84 volts output.

The servo motors are 90VDC, 20A peak & 12A continuous.


Dugong drives are 160v & 35A.

The Whales are 80v & 20A.

Is there any way I could drop my power  supply down a few volts and use the Whales?

Or, do I really need the Dugongs because of the servos  increasing the current  during  coast down?

There is a braking resistor they have specifically  for the Whale & Dugong.

This is just a thought I'm knocking around to get my retro started. I would like to get the dirty work out of the way  before the weather starts getting too hot.

Plus the Whales are $70 each cheaper than the Dugongs.

Thanks in advance ,
JAckal

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Are these Litton encoders ok to re-use?

« on: April 19, 2011, 10:45:08 PM »

I guess that worked. I've never posted pics on this board before.

JAckal

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Are these Litton encoders ok to re-use?

« on: April 19, 2011, 10:40:17 PM »

Here is a link to my imageshack pics:


http://img199.imageshack.us/g/littonencodernameplate2.jpg/

JAckal

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General Mach Discussion / Are these Litton encoders ok to re-use?

« on: April 19, 2011, 10:38:19 PM »

Ia a tearing into my Hurco and it is gutted in the drive side cabinet. After taking the covers off of the encoders, they don't look too bad. I was expecting oil contamination and maybe some dust/shavings, etc. They are super clean.

MY first intent was to install new encoders. Eliminate any old bad parts that might fail or have problems now when at operating temperature.

 Would these old ones be sufficient with  the Dugong drives and Mach 3?

Would it be better to trash these and not look back?


Thanks for the info.

JAckal

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Pendant Settings and Brains

« on: April 07, 2011, 03:35:22 PM »

You are plugging the Pendant into the parallel port on the computer, correct?

I was planning on connecting it to my c32 board like this link here shows:


http://cnc4pc.com/Tech_Docs/C32R1_Product_Integration.pdf




You might check with Art at CNC4PC. Yours could be an earlier edition, and  will only connect the way you have it.



Hope this helps,

JAckal

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Pendant Settings and Brains

« on: April 06, 2011, 05:40:35 PM »

ducati,

I don't have an answer to help you. But, I ordered the same C32  board you have, and  I also plan on using a pendant with the 5th  & 6th axis for speed and feed override.

When you get it sorted out, let us know what caused this. I may have the same problem.


Thanks,
JAckal

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Question about wire gauge & applications

« on: April 05, 2011, 04:56:27 PM »

Thanks for the info, Hood.

Any wire that is re-used, I pull it out and check it. Some of those wires can look good on both ends and be worn or chafed in the middle somewhere.

JAckal