[macona]

I picked up a new 3 axis Anorad D-serv servo controller about 2 years ago. Paid $50 for it at a surplus store. Think it was a spare for a piece of semiconductor equipment. Anyway...

Few months ago I called Anorad to find out what I could about it since I dont have any of the manuals for this critter. Normally they would have charged me $100 for the manuals but the tech went ahead and emailed them to me. Looin gthrough the manuals I found this is actually made by ACS Tech80 (http://www.acs-tech80.com). I was able to get the setup software from their site.

This controller seems to be amazing. Runs off of 115v and supports 3 axis' at 6.5A cont each. It will run DC Brushless (AC Synchronous), AC induction motors, DC Brush Motors, two phase steppers at 256 microstep, and three phase steppers. Each axis is indivdual and you can mix motor types. Also you can use it as a VFD to run high speed 3 phase mill spindles up to 3000 hz for a max 180000 RPM. Whoa!

By hooking it to standard three phase induction motors and adding a shaft encoder for feedback you can run these as cheap high performance (Although high inertia) servo motors.

It can accept serial (rs-232/422) input as well has two analog inputs per axis plus 1 analog output per axix, plus dedicated digital IOs for each axis and estop functions.


Needless to say I would love to use this controller on my CNC gantry project. I just dont know how I can interface to it. It uses a language called ACSPL through the serial port. It can also be configured to accept joystick input via the analog inputs. Also it has some sort of master/slave control that sounds promising.

Anyone work with these kind of controllers?

-Jerry

[mtebob]

Hi Jerry

Did you ever find any more info on this controller? I have one of these (single axis) and would like to use it to power a high speed spindle. I haven't been able to find any info and your link to the software doesn't help. Any info would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
Bob

[Zappautomation]

This controller is obsolite now, and there is only one person in ACS who knows how to program it.
It is designed for high end applications just like the new ACS controllers, and i think that you will find it hard using it for CNC unless you program it to use the analogue inputs as a speed refference.
This wont help you if you wnat to use Mach 3, but there are plenty of CNC controllers that use analogue rather than clock and direction.

You think this controoler is good, you want to look at the Spiiplus range of controllers from ACS.
I have worked on application where we were using linear motors and had speeds of 1 m/sec had a setling time of about a two miliseconds and a jiter while stationary of about 1 nano meter.

I picked up a new 3 axis Anorad D-serv servo controller about 2 years ago. Paid $50 for it at a surplus store. Think it was a spare for a piece of semiconductor equipment. Anyway...

Few months ago I called Anorad to find out what I could about it since I dont have any of the manuals for this critter. Normally they would have charged me $100 for the manuals but the tech went ahead and emailed them to me. Looin gthrough the manuals I found this is actually made by ACS Tech80 (http://www.acs-tech80.com). I was able to get the setup software from their site.

This controller seems to be amazing. Runs off of 115v and supports 3 axis' at 6.5A cont each. It will run DC Brushless (AC Synchronous), AC induction motors, DC Brush Motors, two phase steppers at 256 microstep, and three phase steppers. Each axis is indivdual and you can mix motor types. Also you can use it as a VFD to run high speed 3 phase mill spindles up to 3000 hz for a max 180000 RPM. Whoa!

By hooking it to standard three phase induction motors and adding a shaft encoder for feedback you can run these as cheap high performance (Although high inertia) servo motors.

It can accept serial (rs-232/422) input as well has two analog inputs per axis plus 1 analog output per axix, plus dedicated digital IOs for each axis and estop functions.


Needless to say I would love to use this controller on my CNC gantry project. I just dont know how I can interface to it. It uses a language called ACSPL through the serial port. It can also be configured to accept joystick input via the analog inputs. Also it has some sort of master/slave control that sounds promising.

Anyone work with these kind of controllers?

-Jerry

[mtebob]

All that I would like to do is use it to power a high speed spindle from a circuit board drill. I could provide an analog speed command signal, it would only need to run in open loop mode. Basically just a high frequency inverter drive for the spindle.

[Zappautomation]

This controller wont do what you want to do out of the box, you will need to program it to accept the analogue input as a speed refference.

All that I would like to do is use it to power a high speed spindle from a circuit board drill. I could provide an analog speed command signal, it would only need to run in open loop mode. Basically just a high frequency inverter drive for the spindle.

[graemeian]

I HAVE A TWO AXIS ANORAD CONTROLLER AND A MANUAL. I CANNOT GET POWER TO THE MOTOR. I AM USING A ROTARY ENCODER COUPLED TO A BRUSH DC MOTOR. I HAVE WENT THROUGH THE PROTOCOL IN THE MANUAL WITH NO RESULTS.

CAN ANYONE HELP?