Re: Low cost Servo Controller

I went to your nice site and I have been enjoying the information there.

I did not find anything about the servo amp design or that you have a "kit" available. Could you please let me/us know the details.

What suggestions and comments do you have for a group servo project. I believe it is very important that there is some standardization that group
designed equipment meets standard industrial interfaces and can be replaced if needed with commercial equivalents with only minor headaches. That way,
software would work regardless of the hardware.
Bertho
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> From: Jon Elson <jmelson@...>
>
> Already been done! I have sold about 30 sets of the servo amp boards, with a few additional components
> that would be hard to get in small quantities. I'm running low on blank boards, but could order another
> batch if demand warrants it.
>
> I think two of the builders are close to firing up their amps, we'll have to see who gets to that
> stage first. I'll know when the questions start coming in!
>
> Yes, the STG card is a bit expensive, but it integrates EVERYTHING on one card. That doesn't
> seem so important until you realize that the action of reading the first encoder counter locks the
> counters for all axes, and also loads the new DAC values to all axes at the same time. Also,
> it has the watchdog function interlocked to the servo amp enables and zeroes the DACs
> on a watchdog timeout.
>
> Jon