Re: Matching Microsteps to moters

Thanks for the suggestion, but my first step was to contact
compumoter. They confirmed that these drives could not be modified
for my purposes.
Dale


--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@y..., "Carol & Jerry Jankura"
<jerry.jankura@s...> wrote:

> Hi, Dale:
>
> Although I'm not the expert that Mariss and the others are, I've

worked with

> Compumotors a few years back. I was told that the motor's basic

step rate is

> the same 200 step per rev that many of the others are, but that the

motors

> are manufactured to close tolerances and matched to the controller.
>
> Regarding your X language controllers? Does Compumotor make a

similar

> motor/controller that uses step and direction? If so, you might be

able to

> swap the EProms in your driver for EProms from a Step/Direction

drive. We

> once worked with our local Compumotor rep to get EProms to change

an RS-232

> interface controller to Step/Dir. It might work for you.
>
> -- Jerry
>
> |-----Original Message-----
> |From: aspaguy [mailto:spaguy@l...]
> |Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 1:24 AM
> |To: CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@y...
> |Subject: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Matching Microsteps to moters
> |
> |
> |Hi Jon, Tim, Mariss, others,
> |All this talk about microstep accuracy and smoothness has gotten me
> |thinking about my compumoter steppers. My Moters are compumoter c
> |series which came as part of a package which included the moters

and

> |cx drivers, which I can't use for my project since they use
> |compumoter X language instead of step & direction signals. They may
> |have provided me with a valuable piece of info however. These

drivers

> |are 12800 microstep drives. The Geckos are as I understand it are
> |2000 microstep drives (200 steps x 10 micro per step if I'm

thinking

> |correctly). This didn't concern me untill now as I have heard so

much

> |about how smooth the geckos make your machine perform. Now I see

that

> |Tims API drives have a 12800 setting, and after reading the

previous

> |posts I wonder if these might run smoother with my moters that were
> |designed to run with 12800 microsteps. Will my moters run poorly

with

> |Geckos? With everything Mariss does here, including designing
> |circuits for plasma controls etc. I prefer to purchase Geckos, But

if

> |my moters are not going to like them, maybe I should grab some APIs
> |while I can, and next time purchase moters that will be compatable
> |with geckos.
> |Any Thoughts from the experts?
> |Thanks, Dale
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