A couple of years ago I worked with the local Fanuc service guy on a couple of machines and he mentioned that he was using Mach3 to make some small simple routers. I asked him if he had heard of LinuxCNC and he hadn't. After that, every pause waiting for software to load was spent talking about LinuxCNC. It didn't take much discussion for him to recognize LinuxCNC's better value when we were doing modifications to the Fanuc controlled machines ladder logic sequencing software and I told him that LinuxCNC also supported ladder logic. The Fanuc controlled lathes were interfaced to some custom robotic loaders via Fanuc's ladder software.
Dave On 5/22/2015 7:09 AM, Rick Lair wrote: > Gave those guys a call, talked to tech support for almost a half hour, 5 > mins about my motor, the other 25 about Linuxcnc, and all of its > advantages over "the other guys". The tech guy had vaguely heard of > Linuxcnc, saw the webpage a few times, and heard a few things along the > way, and also had all the components at home for a small desktop stepper > driven mill, and didn't know what he was going to use to control it, I > think he was going home as soon as I got off the phone to order a some > PC components, and breakout boards to get it going with Linuxcnc. > > > As for my encoder, when I went back out last night, I spun the spindle, > while it was in gear, and saw the speed readout bar on gscreen shoot up > over 20000 rpm's, so apparently it is working, I just need to figure out > the scale, > > Another question regarding this, seems how the encoder is on the motor, > and there is a 2 speed transmission on the spindle, High is 1:1 and low > 1:6.325, what HAL component, other than SCALE, do I need to use to > change the ratio for the low speed feedback to the readout display, and > controller for that matter. > > High gear would basically be straight into the controller, but I would > need to reroute it, thru scale, then back into the controller for low gear. > > Thanks > > Rick > > > On 5/21/2015 2:14 PM, Matt Tucci wrote: >> I had a c axis with a 10,000 pulse coder red top fanuc motor. Call the >> people at http://www.fanucworld.com/ , Tennesee Industrial Electronics, >> they'll tell you what it is. >> >> On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 1:01 PM, Dave Caroline <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> If you have it wired, just rotate n turns and watch the variable get >>> updated in halmeter >>> >>> should come to some sensible number I wouldnt be surprised to see it >>> being n*(700 or 8000 clue in the part number)* 4 >>> >>> Dave Caroline >>> >>> On 21/05/2015, Rick Lair <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> I have a Fanuc spindle motor on the VMC I am retrofitting right now, >>>> and I intercepted the motor encoder cable, with an ENCY card from Mesa, >>>> the machine was open loop in regards to the spindle prior to this. >>>> >>>> Would anyone know what the PPR might be on one of these, I didn't know >>>> if they used a common PPR encoder on these motors, or of maybe a way to >>>> figure out what it is? The motor is from 1984, it is a model 8, PN: >>>> A06B-1008-B 700#8000. I can't find any data for it any where, and I am >>>> not sure what to put in INI section to try to get it going. >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> >>>> Thanks >>>> >>>> >>>> Rick Lair >>>> Superior Roll & Turning LLC >>>> 399 East Center Street >>>> Petersburg MI, 49270 >>>> PH: 734-279-1831 >>>> FAX: 734-279-1166 >>>> www.superiorroll.com >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>>> One dashboard for servers and applications across Physical-Virtual-Cloud >>>> Widest out-of-the-box monitoring support with 50+ applications >>>> Performance metrics, stats and reports that give you Actionable Insights >>>> Deep dive visibility with transaction tracing using APM Insight. >>>> http://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/290420510;117567292;y >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Emc-users mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users >>>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> One dashboard for servers and applications across Physical-Virtual-Cloud >>> Widest out-of-the-box monitoring support with 50+ applications >>> Performance metrics, stats and reports that give you Actionable Insights >>> Deep dive visibility with transaction tracing using APM Insight. >>> http://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/290420510;117567292;y >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Emc-users mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users >>> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> One dashboard for servers and applications across Physical-Virtual-Cloud >> Widest out-of-the-box monitoring support with 50+ applications >> Performance metrics, stats and reports that give you Actionable Insights >> Deep dive visibility with transaction tracing using APM Insight. >> http://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/290420510;117567292;y >> _______________________________________________ >> Emc-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. http://www.avast.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ One dashboard for servers and applications across Physical-Virtual-Cloud Widest out-of-the-box monitoring support with 50+ applications Performance metrics, stats and reports that give you Actionable Insights Deep dive visibility with transaction tracing using APM Insight. http://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/290420510;117567292;y _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
