Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] More info on Smart Motors

Methadras,

How much will ClemSoft be charging for their software once
it comes out of beta?

Bill

> okay, i've got a pretty good picture of what is going on with the
> smart motor...
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> first of all its a brushless dc servo with integrated
> driver/controller on-board... i've talked to 6 users today and they
> said head wasn't a problem or an issue... the on-board controller has
> a thermal cut-off past 70 degrees C and they all said even thought
> hey push their motors hard, they've never been to hot to touch... 2
> guys i talked to are still using the same motors for the last 5 years
> without a hitch and all of the other guys are still using their
> motors for the last couple of years... so far, just from these guys
> i've talked to these motors are pretty tough nuggets that can handle
> the work...
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> now here is the tricky part or maybe not so tricky depending on your
> point of view...
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> you can serially daisy chain the motors together with rs-232 or rs-
> 485 or you can use animatics rail for serial I/O and power instead of
> the daisy chain method... this is a huge, huge plus for me because it
> nearly eliminates the need to purchase drivers, a box, all the
> wiring, and/or a controller... animatics sells their own proprietary
> VNC software for about $1000 and there is a third party developer
> that i've talked to personally at www.clemsoft.com that has written a
> really nice interface for the smart motor specifically... its still
> in beta and has a simulation mode built in... its written for windows
> 98/nt/2000 and i've downloaded it, but havn't run it yet... he is
> pretty dedicated to its development and he an i exchanged lots of
> ideas that he seemed fairly enthusiastic about... go check out the
> website for the software and email the guy about any info... well, i
> guess, that is if you really care...
>
> also he told me that the smart motors will and can use stepper motor
> instructions... here are his own words from an email exchange that he
> and i had and i must say its very promising and interesting;
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> "In fact, did you know that any smartmotor can be configured for
> pulse/direction input? In this mode, neither the animatics vnc nor my
> software will work... but the huge amount of software written for
> steppers motors driven from the parallel port, will work better than
> ANY stepper ever thought it could work.... And I'm familiar with at
> least 10 people who have Dos/Windows based parallel port cnc
> solutions and are using it in this mode as well. One warning here...
> I doubt if you could get to 300-500 ipm with a parallel port driver
> system (since steppers can't do 5000 rpm like the smartmotors), but
> you definitely can with the SmartMotor."
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> personally i think i've found my solution to my cnc retrofit... the
> software looks like it will do about 80% - 90% of what i want... the
> motors are completely in-line with what i've been looking for and i
> really don't have to worry about trying to find the magical black
> box/voodoo gear... i'm gonna take the plunge and keep you guys
> informed as to how it goes... wish me luck and as always i will
> entertain any questions or comments...
>
> Methadras
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