It's like you say ... VFDs are so cheap these days.. I consider the GS1 and GS2 series from Automation Direct to be throwaways if they fault out. And they seem to be quite durable on top of that... If you had a bunch of machines that already had VFDs in place and you didn't want to change them out, a board "might" make sense. Otherwise, I'd simply swap the drives out.
Dave On 10/3/2013 12:29 PM, Kirk Wallace wrote: > I'm thinking about completing some work I did with AVRs and Modbus by > making an adapter that has a Modbus port for a PC connection, with > digital and analog IO for VFD control. This could allow one to add > Modbus control to a VFD that normally only has keypad or button and > potentiometer control. If there is any demand for such a thing, I could > have some boards made, otherwise I'll just hack together a few for my > needs. Another thought, there are cheap VFDs with Modbus that could be > had for not much more than the adapter would cost. Any thoughts? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ October Webinars: Code for Performance Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60134791&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
