Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] brushless servo drive?

Wm McNett wrote:

>What is needed to control a brushless servo?
>Brands?
>Gecko says "brush".
>
>

The Gecko 320 has 4 power transistors in it. The commutation is in the
motor. Standard brushless motors have 3 connected phase coils,
and so need 6 transistors to switch the current. The commutation or
sine-wave drive for these motors must be done in the drive, which
needs to know the exact motor position, ie. the relative position
between the magnets and the coils. Old-style brushless motors had
3 hall-effect sensors that sensed the location of the magnets, and signalled
the drive when to switch coils. Newer motors just have some kind of
encoder, not necessarily a standard A-B quadrature encoder with index.
They use this as a form of semi-absolute encoder to give both standard
encoder feedback as well as commutation information. All the manufacturers
have different, proprietary systems, which makes it VERY hard to have a
universal brushless drive.

I suspect this is a good part of why Mariss has not come out with the
Gecko brushless drive. I just worked on some Yaskawa drives and
motors, and they had yet another proprietary encoder scheme, and no
simple hall sensors or other obvious commutation scheme.

Jon