Re: [Emc-users] Bridgeport R2E3

2008-10-21 Thread Jon Elson
Chris Radek wrote: > Yay, I found my information... > > DC bus unfortunately is 100V so no common step-down transformer will > do it. The amps will do 14A continuous 30A peak, so you really need > quite a few kVA especially if you are running the transformer under > the rated voltage (6kVA + ?). >

Re: [Emc-users] Bridgeport R2E3

2008-10-21 Thread Ray Henry
Hi Andre' I was able to increase the output voltage on a 208 generator here to 240 leg to leg. I just disabled any connection to the neutral and run it for pure three phase to motors. Rayh On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 14:43 -0500, Andre' Blanchard wrote: > Thanks for the info. > > As for the 3PH

Re: [Emc-users] Bridgeport R2E3

2008-10-21 Thread John Kasunich
Chris Radek wrote: > On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 01:11:04PM -0700, Kirk Wallace wrote: >> Chris, I am just being curious, your BP currently has a 3-phase main >> transformer that supplies the servo drives and maybe other things? The >> 3-phase Xfmr expects 415 VAC on each leg which ends up as 100 VDC f

Re: [Emc-users] Bridgeport R2E3

2008-10-21 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 15:39 -0500, Chris Radek wrote: ... snip > Currently it has a 3 phase 240->72 volt transformer. When I convert > it to EMC I want to be able to run it on my single phase power. > > So I have a 415->120 single phase transformer that I will use instead > of the current one. I

Re: [Emc-users] Bridgeport R2E3

2008-10-21 Thread Chris Radek
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 01:11:04PM -0700, Kirk Wallace wrote: > > Chris, I am just being curious, your BP currently has a 3-phase main > transformer that supplies the servo drives and maybe other things? The > 3-phase Xfmr expects 415 VAC on each leg which ends up as 100 VDC for > the servo driver

Re: [Emc-users] Bridgeport R2E3

2008-10-21 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 13:59 -0500, Chris Radek wrote: ... snip > DC bus unfortunately is 100V so no common step-down transformer will > do it. The amps will do 14A continuous 30A peak, so you really need > quite a few kVA especially if you are running the transformer under > the rated voltage (6kV

Re: [Emc-users] Bridgeport R2E3

2008-10-21 Thread Andre' Blanchard
Thanks for the info. As for the 3PH transformer, I am not connected to the grid, got a PV and wind generator setup with a battery pack and an inverter which will not run a machine of this size for any useful length of time anyway. Picked up a 3PH diesel generator a few years back that will run t

Re: [Emc-users] Bridgeport R2E3

2008-10-21 Thread Chris Radek
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 12:20:34PM -0500, Jon Elson wrote: > Well, that's a pain, for sure! I think a beefy step-down transformer > might do the trick. > Do you know what the DC bus voltage is supposed to be? 170 V might be a > bit high > for many servo amps, though. Perhaps a bucking transfor

Re: [Emc-users] Bridgeport R2E3

2008-10-21 Thread Jon Elson
Chris Radek wrote: > On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 10:43:32AM -0500, Andre' Blanchard wrote: > >> I am looking at buying a BP series II R2E3. Near as I can tell so far >> everything works, jogs around and runs one block commands in MDI, I could >> not figure out how to punch in a complete program w

Re: [Emc-users] Bridgeport R2E3

2008-10-21 Thread Chris Radek
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 11:12:01AM -0500, Jon Elson wrote: > > I don't have quite enough details of the > enable and fault signals. I think I have this information somewhere. From memory the drives have directional disables but they are wired together because there is only one limit switch per

Re: [Emc-users] Bridgeport R2E3

2008-10-21 Thread Jon Elson
Andre' Blanchard wrote: > I am looking at buying a BP series II R2E3. Near as I can tell so far > everything works, jogs around and runs one block commands in MDI, I could > not figure out how to punch in a complete program when I was looking at the > machine. > > You'd really want to do thi

Re: [Emc-users] Bridgeport R2E3

2008-10-21 Thread Chris Radek
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 10:43:32AM -0500, Andre' Blanchard wrote: > I am looking at buying a BP series II R2E3. Near as I can tell so far > everything works, jogs around and runs one block commands in MDI, I could > not figure out how to punch in a complete program when I was looking at the > m

[Emc-users] Bridgeport R2E3

2008-10-21 Thread Andre' Blanchard
I am looking at buying a BP series II R2E3. Near as I can tell so far everything works, jogs around and runs one block commands in MDI, I could not figure out how to punch in a complete program when I was looking at the machine. I was wondering if I were to convert it to EMC how much of the ex