Re: Series II alive finally!

Lee,

Glad to hear that! Just make sure you have a 470uF/100VDC cap across
terminals 1 and 2 at the drive to keep things healthy.

Mariss

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@y..., "studleylee" <indigo_red@q...> wrote:
> Hi all, thought I'd share my experiments:
>
> Finally, I've had some time to stop procrastinating and wire up my
> SerieII for testing with G210's. With the power supply set at 70vdc,
> with the G210 set at max 7amps. The G210's are mounted on some
> massive heatsinks from a Millermatic welder repair house that I
> lucked into. I had to manually mill the G210 footprints into them.
> The X and Y steppers are fine and I got really good speeds. Its
> really cool to see this large table flying along. BadNews: The Z
> stepper is TOAST! Looks like it is majorly demagnetized in that it
> acts like there only has a single coil, so it has trouble figuring
> out which way to go. The coils ohm-out ok with the center tap of
> each being 1/2 the ohms than that of the leg-to-leg ohms. And all
> ohms/leg are nearly the same. Oh well, looks like I'll go the servo
> route on the Z for starters, then switch all over later.
>
> Great Drives Mariss! They ran cool( thermally and Karma-wise :-) )
> the whole time!! I'll be ordering again soon.
> -Lee