The machine is finally here
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I have been out of town for a while and had to delay getting the machine moved. Moving the machine has been a much bigger and expensive job than what I had planed on. The weight of just the machine was 13,000 lbs.
Next step is to have the electrician upgrade the building service and put in a dedicated 100 amp 3 phase circuit for the main transformer of the machine. Need to have 380v into the main cabinet.
Taking time now to try and understand how the machine is wired up and functions. Trying to make flow charts of how things work and what wires will need to be interfaced to the new controller. I have the wiring diagrams and the cabinet is laid out cleanly with just about all the wires and components labeled. It looks like a lot of the safety and emergency features are handled mechanically (relays) instead of logically (the control box).
The machine has large dc servo motors and separate servo amps that I should be able to keep and use. Plus there are additional encoders on each axis.
All of the spindles are powered from one inverter. Relays are used to select which spindle gets the power. (I think this is what BluePinnacle was suggesting)
So far no big surprises but this looks like this is going to be a big project. Hope to have power next week.