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Need to upgrade controls

Posted by terrygh1
on 2004-07-14 14:22:23 UTC
Hello all, I hope some of you can help me with this project.
I have two YCI cnc mills circa 1980 using Bandit controls,
with level 3 firmware. I would like to upgrade both controls to
something newer, these machines both have 400 oz-in servo motors
rated at 80 vdc with tach feedback and resolves. I would like to
retain the servo motors, the power supply and the driver boards. The
reason being the tach feedback which is, 3vdc per 1000 rpm, is
connected to the driver board for a closed loop torque feedback.
From reading the setup information for the driver board it seems that
the driver signal voltage is +/- 10vdc.
The resolves are connected to the Bandit resolver logic board
and are driven off the back of the servo motors. The resolver
information I have is, Summit Engineering Corp., Bozeman Mt., 2500hz,
rotor phase 1 output 5.0 volts, stator 2 phase input 12 volts. These
will probably have to be upgraded to new encoders that will work with
the new control software
Both mills have 3 phase 220vac Dana Condor spindle drives that are
controlled via the Bandit. This drive uses an analog input signal
for speed control and relay logic for spindle direction. I would
also like to retain these spindle drives if possible.
I have all the prints for the Bandit control, the set up
procedure for the driver boards, along with prints for the Condor VFD.
I would like to control these machines with my notebook
computer it has parallel, serial and usb2 ports.
If anyone has any information which would help me upgrade
these machines I sure would appreciate it.

Thanks Terry Huntington

Discussion Thread

terrygh1 2004-07-14 14:22:23 UTC Need to upgrade controls caudlet 2004-07-14 16:35:28 UTC Re: Need to upgrade controls cnc002@a... 2004-07-14 19:55:34 UTC Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Need to upgrade controls Brad Eyben 2004-07-15 08:04:02 UTC Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Need to upgrade controls cnc002@a... 2004-07-15 10:19:04 UTC Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Need to upgrade controls Brad Eyben 2004-07-16 05:59:33 UTC Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Need to upgrade controls