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General Mach Discussion / Mach 3 and 5 axis?

« on: May 26, 2008, 06:58:59 PM »

Can mach 3 do 5 axis machining?
I have been reading about the Centroid controls and the 5 axis tool length calculations can mach 3 do all that also?
Thanks

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Modbus / Re: Modbus setup screen is different than documented??

« on: May 23, 2008, 12:28:46 PM »

I'm not sure if this is the issue but if you check the modbus plugin it changes that screen.
Just a sugestion

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Best way to run analog drives?

« on: May 07, 2008, 06:49:22 PM »

Your lathe looks like it is running well.
You must be right about the resolver it says 2 phase on it?
An there are some other wires with the motor leads I was wondering about, That must be the tack?
Thanks

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Best way to run analog drives?

« on: May 07, 2008, 06:16:23 PM »

What type of lathe were the servos on?
Mine is an HES I cant remember the amp rating but they are large servos.
They have tachs on them so would I just have to remove them and mount an encoder?
Thanks

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Best way to run analog drives?

« on: May 07, 2008, 05:51:17 PM »

Thanks hood the TEK10 drives look pretty sweet, I think I will try them on my lathe retrofit, it has DC servos.
Do they sell just the top board? I didn't see it.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Best way to run analog drives?

« on: May 07, 2008, 12:50:57 PM »

I am planing on running servo drives that accept 0-10V -+ signals.
I was going to use the pixies but I was told they are not selling them any longer.

There is several models of galil motion controlers and I was wondering whitch ones have proven mach3 plugins developed?
I would like to use the ethernet version if there is a mach3/quantum plug in.
Thanks

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General Mach Discussion / Best way to run analog drives?

« on: May 07, 2008, 10:20:05 AM »

I what is the best way to drive an analog drive -+0-10 V?
Just talk to Skyco and they are not selling the pixies at this time.
What version of the Galil's work well?
Thanks

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: Hitachi seiki VK-55 retrofit advice?

« on: May 05, 2008, 01:11:35 PM »

Jus figured out that it uses yaskawa drives, that is a good thing because I think it might use -+ 0-10 V
I should be able to make Mach3 control that.
Let me know what you guys think

Thanks

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Hitachi seiki VK-55 retrofit advice?

« on: May 05, 2008, 12:36:23 PM »

Hello,
I just purchased a basket case VMC.
It needs alot of work and I am looking at 10K just to get the controls going agian.
This would be the 1997 seicos control, and who knows when it will be smoked again.
Would it be a good idea to try and retrofit something like this with mach 3?
The only thing I can see causing a problem would be controling the spindle drive, it looks like the OEM control uses a digital bus for all the drives.

Here is a link to it on ebay:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=280214611136&ssPageName=STRK:MEDW:IT&ih=018

Let me know thanks.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 3 and ATC's ?

« on: April 10, 2008, 08:13:24 PM »

Thanks,
I am sure I can make the PLC control the tool changer, I just wanted to know how tough it is to make mach and a PLC talk.
Can you share what your macro looks like? Also do you just use the RS-232 port on the computer to talk modbus to a PLC?
Thanks