Re: Smart Motor

Methadras,

Thank you for the laugh! Whon whon whon whon, I can hear the teacher
now :-)

I'll only say this. Motors get hot. Drivers get hot. Heat kills
electrons.

I'd want to TALK to someone USING these FOR AWHILE in an app VERY
similar to mine, before jumping...

Hope this helps,

Ballendo

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@y..., "methadras" <aymani@a...> wrote:
> hi guys,
>
> i'm a big fan of this group and look forward everyday to reading
all
> the new posts to gleen as much info as i possibly can, so i can
sound
> smart to my friends who come over and point at my gear and
go, "hey,
> what's that...?" and then i say, "well, that's a blah blah blah"
like
> the charlie brown teacher... hehehe...
>
> anyway, i've finally decided to delve into converting my knee mill
to
> a CNC powerhouse... well, not so powerful... my idea is at least 3-
> axis (x, y, and knee or should it be on the spindle...?)... so what
> i've been doing is scouring the net and my motion control magazines
> for good ways to make this happen... well, lo and behold i ran
across
> an old memory of the SMART MOTOR made by animatics
> (www.animatics.com)... i find their ad and hit their web site...
i've
> called and left a message for a local rep to call me back... well,
i
> think this would be a good and fairly decently cheap solution for
me
> to convert to... i've a budget for my cnc conversion and its around
> $3k, but it looks like with these smart motors i can save half of
> that... the nema34 625 oz-in. servo motors i'm looking at are
around
> $500 each, but they are totally integrated drivers, servo amps, dc
> power supply, I/O, etc. etc. and you can daisy chain or network the
> motors together...
>
> my only problem in finding out from the rep or you guys is, do i
need
> a pc-based controller like a galil, delta-tau, etc. to send out the
> proper signals to each motor or do i use an msdos based program
that
> turns my parallel port into a multi-axis controller...?
>
> i'm a big boy, so i can take any critiques that you guys may have
> about this setup, but it looks like for me it would be the easiest
> way for not having to build a box full of electronics and maintain
it
> whereas, i can just slap on the motors, plug in the juice to each
> one, connect the communications I/O and that's it... what do you
guys
> think...
>
> Methadras