I have some brushless servos that I am trying to find some drives for.

I want to use them with Linuxcnc and I don't have any other hardware to
go with them (yet).

 

They are old ElectroCraft servos.

XBR-2910 (part# 1834629030) Specs: 

Torque Constant (Kt) : 1.8 in-lbs/ amp 

Voltage Constant (Ke) : 19.9 - 23.1 V/KRPM 

Rated Voltage : 230 volts 

Continuous Speed (no load) : 6000 rpm 

Peak Torque : 18.5 in-lbs 

Continuous Torque : 6.1 in-lbs 

Inductance : 5.8 mH 

Encoder count: 2,000 ppr 

Encoder Voltage : 5 Vdc 

Encoder current: 225 mA

 

Any recommendations for a good inexpensive drive option for these?

 

This will be used at lower RPMs (less than 2k rpm) and the might be only
just adequate for this application (but they were really cheap), so I
need to get the most I can out of them.

 

Is there enough of an advantage to sinusoidal commutation to justify the
added expense of a sinusoidal drive, or is an inexpensive trapezoidal
drive good enough?

 

Some of the ebay drives I am considering are:

AMC SE10A20AC  http://www.a-m-c.com/download/datasheet/se10a20ac.pdf
(there are some on ebay for $200 ish) would these have enough juice for
these motors?

Copley Controls 7series
http://www.copleycontrols.com/Motion/pdf/7225ac.pdf (there are some on
ebay for $150 ish) might have trouble setting up the 2 sine wave
signals?

I like that these drives look like they don't need a separate power
supply (additional expense)

 

Or a Mesa 8i20 but then I have to buy or build a power supply. 

 

The nice digital drives that can do sine commutation seem to be few and
far between on ebay and when they do show up they tend to be a bit
spendy.

 

If trapezoidal commutation would be good enough there seems to be a lot
of inexpensive AMC drives on ebay that might work.  Like a B25A20AC

 

My lack of any real experience is showing, but at some point you just
need to jump in the pool.

 

Todd Zuercher

P. Graham Dunn Inc. <http://www.pgrahamdunn.com/index.php> 

630 Henry Street 

Dalton, Ohio 44618

Phone:  (330)828-2105ext. 2031

 



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E-mail: [email protected]
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Dalton, OH 44618
www.pgrahamdunn.com
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