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Identifying a servo motor
Hello folks, Im posting looking for help identifying these motors, they are hooked to a small CNC mill, I have absolutely no reference about them, just my educated intuition. I think these are servos because they have a 4:1 reduction and have encoders on their back.
Here are photos of the units:
Both are NEMA34 mount
One is square, 8 wires coming out of it, 2 sets of the same color
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the wires go to a connector:
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4 of the wires are hooked together, if this where a stepper, doing this would prevent the unit from turning, or am I wrong?
The other is round, same US Digital Encoder on the back:
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This also has 8 wires all different colors, but the connector is connected in the same fashion:
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These are connected to a small board that looks like some sort of protection (has 4 diodes) since its not wired like a rectifier
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also attached to this little board is this power resistor that looks like an energy dump:
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The driver is homemade and its made out of a set of 8 darlingtons BU941ZP and three 74HC00 logic gates.
So my conclusion is these are brushless DC servos (but I may be wrong of course)
I would like to know how to determine the wires and if possible determine their voltage, so I know if I can use them with any known servo drive.
Thanks a lot in advance!
Pablo