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General Mach Discussion / Re: Lubrication of belts and racks
« on: April 01, 2008, 06:10:41 PM »
As Stirling stated...I wonder if there's any petroleum based plastic or particularly latex in the belts. Oil will indeed rot rubber. Thats one reason why your not supposed to use WD40 on your vehicle door sills in the winter. It might solve one problem at the moment, but creates a much more serious problem later. The 2 do not play nicely together. You could buy some KY jelly for your belts.  ;D Might wanna tell the wife what your doing before she stumbles upon a tube of KY in your toolbox, though, because yet again... It might solve one problem at the moment, but creates a much more serious problem later.  ;D  ;D Seriously though, I wouldn't think belts would need lube. If you feel that they do, my first thought would be some belt dressing from the auto store.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Toroidal transformers vs standard IE
« on: March 30, 2008, 02:36:18 PM »
Live and learn  ;)

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General Mach Discussion / Re: 'Jerky' movement - Help please!
« on: March 30, 2008, 04:56:41 AM »
The only good neighbors are ex-neighbors. Just do what I do. Take the M-16 out every now and again, just to remind them who there not going to deal with. If that don't phase them, just wear a helmet and put on some bunny slippers while  your shooting. Be creative.  Ever had your house shake because the neighbor is cutting down trees...with black powder charges? Naaaa, CNC at 3:00 am is small potatoes. 4 neighbors...and counting. I just hope some crazy person don't move in. Keep in mind when you go from exact stop to const. velocity, you might have to mess with the CV angle setting. If you try to go fast around corners that are supposed to be sharp, they can end up rounded. Just a heads up. Might want to read up on the subject in the manual.

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gremlin indeed. I bet it resembles a smurf with red eyes and small wings. Some have even described it as a Joe Cartoon fly. I've heard stories, but never really seen one (fingers tightly crossed).

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My bread had mold on it. Is this a SS that fell from an airplane in transit and was then run over by a marching band?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: 'Jerky' movement - Help please!
« on: March 30, 2008, 04:14:10 AM »
Most likely your in exact stop mode. Go to the menu at the top... CONFIG>GENERAL CONFIG. The setting should be listed there. Switch it from exact stop to constant velocity.
And no, there is no such thing as finished.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Toroidal transformers vs standard IE
« on: March 30, 2008, 04:02:54 AM »
The questions your asking cannot be answered with a simple "yes" or "no". What may be suitable for some, may be totally unsatisfactory for others. Allot depends on the specific application, or, as most people need/want "widest possible ranges of multiple applications". The design of the machine plays a huge part also. If your making a pick-and-place machine, for example, your requirements would not be as critical as say, for example, a hobby router capable of cutting wood, plastic, aluminum, steel, 3d embossing, and all the while keeping an acceptable level of tolerances. Nobody here is telling you "it won't work", as it very well may work perfectly for your application. Were just here to help people avoid potential mistakes we have already made. Yes, I have a pile of stuff that never made it on my machine. I admit it. Anybody that claims they haven't made bad purchases...is a liar.

Now, I'm definitely not the expert on your questions, by any stretch of the imagination. But I will try. I'm not even going to state that I am correct in my own assumptions.

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why this motor would not give me my 665 oz-in or close to it when using a 56vdc power supply
Max rpm on this machine is going to be 180-200 rpm
The same could be asked at the race track. My car has 450 HP and 500 foot pounds of torque. However, at 200 mph, the torque would drop off drastically. I need some nitrous oxide (more voltage) for a boost over a wider range of speed. These figures are made at optimum conditions, and not at an industry standard. You should be able to find spec sheets on your motors. If they say 665 oz at 200 rpm's, then there ya go. I have seen spec sheets where the torque drops like a cliff face at 5 revs per second. Take advertised specs with a grain of salt.
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?should this work yes or no.
Dunno. (that was easy to answer!)
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?the other motor e33 sigmax  996oz-in  4.5vdc 8.4amps
same max rpm 180-200.
will these work with a 56vdc 800 watt power supply
yes or no.
If I were a betting man, this is where I would put my money!! Lets see....800/56=14.3 amps. Depending on the quality of your power supply (again, no industry standards for determining the actual performance. Power supply makers have a BAAAAD reputation for stretching the truth.) it should put out 14.3 amps. It should do the trick. Don't forget to add up the amps from the other motors for a total. If it's a cheap unit, it might not even hold up to 8 or 10 amps at 56 volts. Or it might for 15 seconds. Or it might hold up forever. If your using 3 motors, 14 amps might be on the slim side. When power supplies burn out, they can be potentially dangerous. Even a computer P/S can burn out, taking the house/occupants with it in a worst case scenario. We should think about that when we add that extra hard drive or upgrade to that power hungry graphics card. Power supplies are very important. Many times a problem outside can be traced back to the P/S. That's why lots of people build there own. They can rest assured with a high confidence level there power needs are being supplied correctly.
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? what should I expect to see when powered up an I make a first move.
hopefully, movement. (ahhhh, another easy one)

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Toroidal transformers vs standard IE
« on: March 28, 2008, 09:28:21 PM »
It may be best to look for another more suitable motor than the 65v one. It's been a while since I had to figure this stuff out, but if memory serves correct, you should run between 3 to 25 times the motors rated voltage, 10 times being the most common used. Even at 2X, 130v goes way beyond any hobby driver.

following taken from Phil (PMinMO)
 High speed torque increases as the ratio of the motor power supply to coil voltage increases. If your motor coil is rated 3V it will perform better with a 30V power supply than a 12V power supply. (If you want to understand that more, there is an excellent paper on Geckodrives website.) Bipolar drivers are more expensive, especially as the current and voltage increases. With that consideration, a Unipolar driver that is capable of higher voltage motor power supply, may infact perfrom better than a bipolar driver with a lower voltage power supply.

 Ebay was flooded with these high voltage motors for a cheap price when I was looking for motors.  The 4.8v should be a suitable motor. At 50v, your still within spec of the Gecko's. Another thing to keep in mind is if you reach the upper limit of the drivers, at fast deceleration, you will get a backfeed current that can be significantly higher than the drivers voltage specs. My own personal recommendation would be to get 3 motors of the same voltage (or very close) that way its much much easier to build your power supply to suit all of them equally.

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Mach Screens / Re: Equivalents and tap chart
« on: March 28, 2008, 08:50:41 PM »
Glad to be of service!  :)

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Forum suggestions and report forum problems. / Script error, cypress
« on: March 28, 2008, 05:09:12 AM »
I get these errors every time I start to run a program. This problem just recently started rearing its ugly head (a month or so ago). I can't recall the version that I updated to when it started. I'm using 3.039 now. Same errors with the previous version,too. I get no errors on my other computer thats not running a machine. Needless to say it does not have the drivers installed, only the basics for simulations. It might not even be a problem with mach itself, maybe some other software or drivers conflicting with it. Who knows. Not me, thats for sure. Figured I would post it for a heads up for you VB/C++ programming junkies. Sure is irritating, to say the least. Line 2 happens to be a comment--- (DATE=DD-MM-YY - 28-03-08 TIME=HH:MM - 03:47)