Hello All
I have been reading on this forum quite alot, and got alot of inspiration.
I live in Sweden.
I like challanges and building things, everything from cars, boats to houses, cnc technics etc. I upposed I could say I am a self learned engineer:-)
I have a CNC Mill a Syil X6 and have had the mill since 2008 and back then they did not have PDB or ATC, so during the years since I have built a PDB with Air/Hydraulic release, and 20mm TTS type tooling in a MT3 Spindle.
I have also made a Automatic Tool Length measure Switch and macro.
I am just are in the finishing stadges of my 10 tool carousel ATC, I have basically all the mechanics finished and have completed the VB macro with safety sensors and it works, I am on my way to make a screenset for the ATC in Mach3.
But I have noticed that the MT3 taper has the tendency to get stuck from time to time, So I have got a Tormach R8 spindle insted with 3/4" straight shank tooling, and are on my way to install it and then I tought of changing the spindle motor and drive to get more torque and spindle speed, for now I have 3500 rpm and would like to come up to 6000 rpm and was thinking a Servo as spindle motor 2,2 Kw 3Phase.
I have found a Taiwan company
www.Adlee.com that had a BLDC Motor with 2.2 Kw 6000Rpm, and as I understand it can be controlled from mach3, but they no longer have that available and I have been looking at their Match servo motor and drive, but it is not the same types of controll it is +- 0-10V and no Step/Dir, it has RS485 interface, but I have no experience with that.
So my question is: Does anyone have any recomendation of a company that sells something that could work or what I should be looking for? Or is the match servo a good way to?
On Ebay there are alot of servos and drives, but I cant seem to find anyone that has 6000 rpm, Step/Dir and 2,2 Kw (1.5Kw could be enough)
What I want to achive is: To be able to do Tapping with a tension/compression tapping head and maybe if it is achivable RigidTapping, Get Rpms up to 6000, and not have the motor reducing rpm when plunging into the material.
My existing configuration is this
Stepper motors for X Y Z A B(Carousel)
BLDC motor 1.5 Kw from Syil Driver is 1Phase
My goal is:
Ethernet Smoot stepper, to get more inputs/outputs for sensors and ATC
Servo motor as Spindle Motor, Driver needs to be 380V or 230V, 3Phase to spred the amps, I have 3x 16Amps available.
R8 spindle with Tormach TTS tooling
ATC 10 Tools
Thanks in advance.
Thomas