we can all always use help :-)
I have been lucky in that the UK importer send me the diagrams which makes life a lot easier
So far I have removed the DC spindle drive as there was no sensible solution to running it from single phase
The money spend on making 3 phase/changing the DC drive would easily pay for an AC spindle with closed loop control
Stepper wise, well they seem to work (powered it up) Not seen any movement yet as I have remove the controller cards
(intend on sticking mach3 on this thing) if they behave I will keep them, what is odd is that according to the docs, they are set to full step and not halfstep
(bearing in mind these are 5 phase steppers) I would have though this runs at high resolution....
if work does not keep me away from it, I hope to run step/dir signals mid week....
currently I am mapping out the control signals between LPT and a cubloc
what seems odd is that the monitor only has a ribbon loom going to it (with composite signals) and no power
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so that is why i did not bother firring up the full system.
Getting ahead of myself here I am looking to find tooling for this thing, as the toolholders seem Emco specific, do you know of a source ?
what is your experience with them , do you run them as per "factory setting" or have you converted ?