Re: [Emc-users] An interesting video on motors

2020-12-24 Thread nk
2020-12-24 18:43 skrev andy pugh: On Tue, 22 Dec 2020 at 16:37, Nicklas SB Karlsson wrote: As I understand it is an IPM Internal Permanent Magnet motor, have principal picture in old course literature from university. Would guess it is used because full torque is seldom used and iron losses

Re: [Emc-users] Checking vfd hookup question?

2020-12-24 Thread Jon Elson
On 12/24/2020 11:43 AM, Dave Cole wrote: Automation Direct sells braking resistors. https://www.automationdirect.com/adc/shopping/catalog/drives_-a-_soft_starters/ac_variable_frequency_drives_(vfd)/vfd_accessories/braking_units_-a-_resistors Looks like the cheapest one is about $30. I've used

Re: [Emc-users] Checking vfd hookup question?

2020-12-24 Thread Dave Cole
Automation Direct sells braking resistors. https://www.automationdirect.com/adc/shopping/catalog/drives_-a-_soft_starters/ac_variable_frequency_drives_(vfd)/vfd_accessories/braking_units_-a-_resistors Looks like the cheapest one is about $30. But unless you are hitting the brakes constantly, they

Re: [Emc-users] Checking vfd hookup question?

2020-12-24 Thread Jon Elson
On 12/24/2020 02:18 AM, Chris Albertson wrote: "All the time?"When you have a hard requirement like this is when some detailed engineering can pay off.Assume you are reversing at 50% duty cycle and burning 1KW 50% of the time. Where I live this can cost 12 cents per hour. This is $89 p

[Emc-users] Back to the6040 and trying to make LCNC control the spindle

2020-12-24 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings all, I got no response of any kind yesterday from the motor. So this morning I powered it up and immediately did a set on pd0013 which restores factory defaults. But the jumper that controls which POT, the front panel or the electronic on in the 7i76D is used. That now makes it run

Re: [Emc-users] Checking vfd hookup question?

2020-12-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 24 December 2020 03:18:24 Chris Albertson wrote: > "All the time?"When you have a hard requirement like this is when > some detailed engineering can pay off.Assume you are reversing at > 50% duty cycle and burning 1KW 50% of the time. Where I live this > can cost 12 cents per

Re: [Emc-users] Checking vfd hookup question?

2020-12-24 Thread Chris Albertson
"All the time?"When you have a hard requirement like this is when some detailed engineering can pay off.Assume you are reversing at 50% duty cycle and burning 1KW 50% of the time. Where I live this can cost 12 cents per hour. This is $89 per month if you actually do run "all the time".