Andre' Blanchard wrote: > I am looking at buying a BP series II R2E3. Near as I can tell so far > everything works, jogs around and runs one block commands in MDI, I could > not figure out how to punch in a complete program when I was looking at the > machine. > > You'd really want to do this with a PC connected to the serial port (or possibly with a floppy disc, if it has those.) > I was wondering if I were to convert it to EMC how much of the existing > hardware I could use, servos, drivers etc.. > An R2E3 uses Contraves NC400 servo amps, and they accept +/- 10 V velocity command signals from the controller. These could be saved. I have ALMOST enough info here to advise, but I don't have quite enough details of the enable and fault signals. You would need one of the servo interfaces that have analog output. (Pico Systems PPMC or the Mesa board.) Another choice is to replace the servo amps and use something like my Universal PWM Controller and PWM servo amps.
The motors are most likely to be by SEM, and are VERY good. Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
