On 6 September 2011 18:44, Andrew <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I paid £50 for three AC servos from eBay (500W) and they will be >> running with Mesa 8i20 drives. (around E200) >> >> Wow! I'll run through ebay once more. I guess you mean £50 per motor, not > for all three =) No, I mean £50 for all three. > Do all AC motors have similar connectors? To a large extent, yes. They basically have three wires for the three phases. The variability is in the feedback device, and there is a lot of variability. I wrote a HAL component to deal with most of that. Motors with Resolvers are a bit awkward, but both Pico and Mesa make convertors, or there is a way to do it with an Arduino (but not as well) -- atp "Torque wrenches are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Special Offer -- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! And you'll get a free "Love Thy Logs" t-shirt when you download Logger. Secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsisghtdev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
