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General Mach Discussion / Re: Help with servos and drives.

« on: January 26, 2010, 11:15:06 AM »

As it turns out the drives were set up to run these aerotech motors.  I had forgotten that they both the drives and the motors came off the same equipment.

I'm getting really lost with all the motor parameters etc.  Is there a way I can save a motor profile and upload it to you so can have a look?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Help with servos and drives.

« on: January 26, 2010, 07:13:13 AM »

I should have everything hooked up from the encoder to the drive later today. I replaced the military style wiring connectors on the Aerotech motor with a different style that I have plenty of.

Once I have the encoder wired to the drive and the motor wires connected what is the next step?  I'm not sure what inputs and outputs get connected to the parallel port and what settings I need in Mach.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Help with servos and drives.

« on: January 24, 2010, 12:22:19 PM »

Think I understand. Pins from the J2 conector on the drive to the encoder connector on the motor.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Help with servos and drives.

« on: January 24, 2010, 10:30:17 AM »

Success!  Now I just need to figure out what all those settings mean.  I'm guessing I'll need to gather some data on both the motors and encoders?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Help with servos and drives.

« on: January 23, 2010, 07:23:14 PM »

how do I do that?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Help with servos and drives.

« on: January 23, 2010, 07:19:22 PM »

OK, tried that. I had initially used a standard serial cable but I cut the wires and mapped them out. I connected pin 5 to 5 (just as it was) and then swapped the 2 for 3 and 3 for 2.

Still doesn't detect the drive?  Any ideas?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Help with servos and drives.

« on: January 23, 2010, 02:33:16 PM »

looks like the cable didnt' have pass through. OK, I need pins two and three and pin 1?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Help with servos and drives.

« on: January 23, 2010, 12:52:11 PM »

I got the software installed and the drive conected to the pc but the software doesn't see the drive for some reason?

Any ideas?

Drive powered up but with no motor conected to it.

Drive flashes E  then 1, 1 repeat...

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Help with servos and drives.

« on: January 23, 2010, 09:45:00 AM »

Great, thanks.  I'll get it installed and make up a cable and will no doubt have more questions ..

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Help with servos and drives.

« on: January 23, 2010, 04:43:41 AM »

I don't think I have DSA Pro. I have a CD from G&L labled picpro but I've no idea what's on it. This is really new to me.   Is DSAPro something I can D/L from the G&L website?