Re: [Emc-users] VFD + Induction motor closed position loop

2012-01-22 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
Thanks andy for your recomendation. I'm reading about pico and mesa systems for driving servo motors. I'm curious about the 8i20 card. Does this card handle the PID calculations? Or the card only reads the pwm signals from the mesa I/O card?, so I need to use the HAL PID component and use it to

Re: [Emc-users] VFD + Induction motor closed position loop

2012-01-22 Thread andy pugh
On 22 January 2012 23:20, Leonardo Marsaglia leonardomarsagli...@gmail.com wrote: I'm curious about the 8i20 card. Does this card handle the PID calculations? That card does hardly any calculations at all. It takes current and phase angle information from EMC2/linuxCNC via a serial link. The

Re: [Emc-users] VFD + Induction motor closed position loop

2012-01-22 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
Andy thanks for your explaination about the 8i20 card. So, this card used with LinuxCNC and hostmot2 will work well to drive a servo for accurate positioning. Right? I saw that you wrote the difference between an AC brushless and DC brushed motor if I'm not wrong. But the main doubt that I have

Re: [Emc-users] VFD + Induction motor closed position loop

2012-01-22 Thread andy pugh
On 22 January 2012 23:56, Leonardo Marsaglia leonardomarsagli...@gmail.com wrote: Andy thanks for your explaination about the 8i20 card. So, this card used with LinuxCNC and hostmot2 will work well to drive a servo for accurate positioning. Right? It _should_. I can't say for certain that it

Re: [Emc-users] VFD + Induction motor closed position loop

2012-01-22 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
Thanks Andy again for your help. As always you're very helpful! Regards. Leonardo. El 22 de enero de 2012 21:06, andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com escribió: On 22 January 2012 23:56, Leonardo Marsaglia leonardomarsagli...@gmail.com wrote: Andy thanks for your explaination about the 8i20 card.

Re: [Emc-users] VFD + Induction motor closed position loop

2012-01-20 Thread andy pugh
On 20 January 2012 21:09, Leonardo Marsaglia leonardomarsagli...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you Les and Robert for your answers. So, the best option is brushed DC motors Brushless are good too, if they come with drives. There are also generic EMC2-compatible brushless drives from Pico and Mesa. --

Re: [Emc-users] VFD + Induction motor closed position loop

2012-01-19 Thread robert
On 19/01/2012 02:02, Leonardo Marsaglia wrote: Thanks Robert for your answer. I'll be chechink the Yaskawa models and see if I can find a good dealer around here to request quotation. So you tell that you tried this combination with EMC?. And how did it work? It was good for positioning?. I

[Emc-users] VFD + Induction motor closed position loop

2012-01-18 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
Hello to everybody on this list. I've been working for almost two years with LinuxCNC software (the old EMC hehe) and steppers driving an old Schaudt cam/lobe grinding machine. Now it's time to improve the system and change the steppers for something with more speed, specially for the Z axis.

Re: [Emc-users] VFD + Induction motor closed position loop

2012-01-18 Thread robert
i have tryed this also u can get close u will not get Servo performance/position resolutions but u can get close.. hence why they say servo like on VFDs spec sheets and it does make a big diff what level of VFD you use also some are alot better at this than others.. Yaskawa do some very

Re: [Emc-users] VFD + Induction motor closed position loop

2012-01-18 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
Thanks Robert for your answer. I'll be chechink the Yaskawa models and see if I can find a good dealer around here to request quotation. So you tell that you tried this combination with EMC?. And how did it work? It was good for positioning?. I don't need fast interpolations, only individual