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HiCON integration - Kuhlmann mill/engraver
« on: August 31, 2013, 03:31:01 PM »
Am I the early bird again as there seems to be not much discussion on HiCON board?
Maybe integration with HiCON has been so easy for other people too - there's not much to ask?

Anyhow I'll share a few words about this control upgrade case I made recently as it was the easiest case I've had thus the control was new to me. VitalSystems I've known for years and our first dspMC/IP has been running in production for several thousand of hours now.

In next to the case itself.

BR. Arto
Re: HiCON integration - Kuhlmann mill/engraver
« Reply #1 on: August 31, 2013, 03:47:47 PM »
Here's the firs impression of the machine.

Made in Germany year 1983.
19" Rack taller than me full of electronics to control 3-axises. 3PH 400V supply 16A.
Frame surprisingly made totally out of cast iron and steel. HEAVY!
Moved with stepper motors - full step if I understood right.
Max. machining speed 600 mm/min. Positioning ca. 5000 mm/min.
Precise 700W spindle with water cooling 10-35 k rpm.



Next task - stripping all electronics and most of the wiring and some cleaning.
Re: HiCON integration - Kuhlmann mill/engraver
« Reply #2 on: August 31, 2013, 04:32:08 PM »
Woops.. I need to get the size set but where's the edit button..
« Last Edit: August 31, 2013, 04:43:36 PM by alfaalfa »
Re: HiCON integration - Kuhlmann mill/engraver
« Reply #3 on: August 31, 2013, 04:51:59 PM »
Modified control:

I took the easy way and kept the original 6A steppers after making short trials and finding out the machining speed can be at least 4 X higher with new microstepping RTA drivers. Other possibility was conversion to Yaskawa AC servo's.

In the old wire connection box lays now the whole new control.

HiCON Integra controller
4 x RTA 6A drivers (XYZ + R)
56 V 5A SM PSU for steppers
5 V PSU for logic
24 V PSU for IO

Re: HiCON integration - Kuhlmann mill/engraver
« Reply #4 on: August 31, 2013, 04:55:33 PM »
OK. Bored with explanations and too large pictures...

You can skip to first raw video clip of how it works now:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OE_NNCMyABw