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It was: Sorry for the long description but my question is: Is it possible to use these drivers? or is it going to be a lot of trouble to get them to work with LinuxCNC?? Thanks as always for your help! 2014-11-18 22:05 GMT-03:00 Leonardo Marsaglia <[email protected] >: > Hello to all! > > A few months ago our Mazak spindle died and we replaced it with a new one > of the brand Yaskawa. The lathe is behaving well but it's a good idea to > replace the control with a LCNC machine following a planned schedule just > to avoid the emergency of replacing it in case of a sudden failure on the > Mazak original cpu. > > I've seen that there's a link on the wiki with a VMC Mazak retrofitted to > LinuxCNC. (http://webpages.charter.net/bengvall/emc/emcconversion.html). > > From what I can read on that link and what I found about the DC servos on > our Mazak, both work the same way comparing the phase to eliminate the > following error. I've got some info on the manuals that came with my lathe > that says the following: > > X Axis Servo Motor Z Axis Servo Motor > HD81-125 HD101-12 > 0.8 Kw - 1.5 Kva 1.1 Kw - 2.2 Kva > > Here are two links to pictures of the drivers to see if there's a > possibility to use them with LinuxCNC or if it's better to replace the > drivers for simpler ones. > > http://imageshack.com/a/img537/5573/lgfKjB.jpg > > http://imageshack.com/a/img743/4134/rk1IuG.jpg > > What I find a little strange is the power of the motors, I thought that > for the size of this lathe 0.8 and 1.1 kw it's not that much, but may be > that's because I'm not used to work with servos, I only worked with > steppers so far. Although the ballscrews on both axis are really easy to > move by hand so this might be the right specs for the motors. > > Sorry for the long description but my question is: Is it possible to use > these drivers? or is it going to be a lot of trouble to get them to work > with LinuxCNC?? > > Thanks as always for your help! > > -- > *Leonardo Marsaglia*. > -- *Leonardo Marsaglia*. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=157005751&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
