On Fri, 2011-05-13 at 20:23 -0500, Jon Elson wrote: > 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! > Indeed! That kind of resolution cost real money. Does anyone know what part of the part number defines the encoder type and resolution?
I did find some information on this site: http://www.dnc-electronics.co.uk/fanuc-motors.html that at least defines power and voltage. Dave > 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
