On 20 March 2013 21:43, Gregg Eshelman <[email protected]> wrote: > It has glass scales on X and Y on the table, Z on the quill. The issue with > keeping the original controllers is that one is gone, missing, MIA - along > with the X axis servo motor. If there's a selection of different control > boards that can be adapted to replace it, that could save some money. If it > has to be the exact same as the other two, that will tip me towards pulling > out everything except the motors and power supply (also leave anything else > original as needed for motor power), possibly even the motors depending on > price of 3 newer style VS one old Baldor or equivalent.
There is no reason that all the motors and drives need to be the same. You could even use a stepper on the X. It would be a strange thing to do, but it would work. > As for the spindle drive motor, I don't have three phase power but I do have > 220V and know some local places to get a 220V single phase real cheap, or > even just swap for the three phase that's on it. You probably want to run the spindle off of a VFD anyway, so you can use a single-phase input inverter to drive the 3-phase motor. It is possible that the current drive can work off of single phase, possibly with some derate. -- atp If you can't fix it, you don't own it. http://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_mar _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
