Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] potential product

Very good idea. I'm sure there will be much input on stuff to add-in for
even more features, so let me count my chickens and say, sure, "I Be In.."

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jon Elson" <elson@...>
To: <CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 10:39 AM
Subject: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] potential product


> Hello, everyone,
>
> I'm working with a local client who has a small milling machine
> with Gecko 320 servo drives. I'm working on how to hook up the
> drives to my Universal Stepper Controller to get the maximum usefulness
> out of it, and was thinking it gets complicated enough that I might
> want to make boards available to other Gecko 320 users.
>
> Here are the features I'm looking at putting on it :
>
> 1. emergency stop interface to the Gecko fault signal, so it shuts
> down all axes, spindle, coolant, etc. and informs the computer
> of the E-stop. It would also have tally lights to remember which
> axis was the one that caused the shutdown. There would be an
> external connection for one or more E-stop switches on the
machine,
> and accept E-stop from the VFD or other source as well. (This is
> already in my USC
>
> 2. E-stop control, or even DC power supply switching, to shut
> down and brake the motors from computer control.
>
> 3. encoder relaying by use of opto-isolators from the Gecko drives to
> the computer, so that EMC becomes a DRO when you hit e-stop.
> The coordinate system would be preserved, so that when you
> came out of e-stop, the same coordinate reference would be there.
>
> Most of this functionality should work with other step/direction interface
> systems, too, so you wouldn't have to use it with my USC board, only.
>
> I'm thinking this board should be able to go for $50 - 75, since there
isn't
> all that much on it. What do you pwople think about such a product?
> Would you want one?
>
> I'm also thinking about making kits and complete servo driver systems,
> including power supply, 3 or 4 Gecko 320's, my USC board and the
> board described above, with heat sinks, fans, connector panel, etc.
> I don't have a real good feel for what that should cost, though.
>
> Jon
>
>
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