Kirk Wallace wrote: > Is replacing the encoder with a more EMC2 friendly encoder an option? I > have a couple motors with proprietary encoders on them that I plan on > replacing with quadrature and Hall encoders or magnetic encoders such as > the AEAT-6010 if it's fast enough. Removing the old encoders was easy > enough and provides the mounting features for the new encoders. I > haven't gone beyond a rough plan so far, so this may not work. On the > other hand, if the price on Fanuc motors has gone up, it may be cheaper > to use generic motors with EMC2 instead and use the Fanuc motors on > Fanuc systems. > Oh, well, sure! You can always use the new AMT 6-channel encoder that has commutation outputs along with quadrature. BUT, the Fanuc serial encoders have 32K, 64K and 1 million counts/rev, and that kind of resolution is VERY expensive. These high-res encoders are probably more valuable than the motors!
I was thinking about this mostly for retrofits of machines which already had these motor/encoders mounted on the machine. There are quite a few of them out there. Some are the older S series which I already have converters for. They moved on to these serial encoders sometime in the mid 90's. Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Achieve unprecedented app performance and reliability What every C/C++ and Fortran developer should know. Learn how Intel has extended the reach of its next-generation tools to help boost performance applications - inlcuding clusters. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmay _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
