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Larry

Please enlighten me on what makes a vehicle and why it needs a special design? I have to get the parts ordered in the next few week for this project. I'm needing to nail down the drives.
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Al

Your correct on calculated torque, I was giving the manufactors Continous gear box output torque from there data sheet. This will not be running continous on top of that. If the hieght was not...

Larry:

It is a vehile if that what you want to call it. It will be moving pallets in a deep rack storage system. Were looking at max of 6000 lbs but most of the time it will be more like 2000 Lbs....

It's my understand you do not want to drop voltage below 90% of operating voltage of a Lithium battery or you will damage the battery. So it that case were looking at about 43 volts.

Charging...

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As anyone used a Gecko servo drive on a battery driven application. It will be a 48 volt LiFePO4 battery pack the motor is rate 48 volts 14.45 continuous current no peak current is given....

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As anyone used a Viper drive on a battery driven application. It will be a 48 volt LiFePO4 battery pack the motor is rate 48 volts 14.45 continuous current no peak current is given. Continuous...

Welcome aboard

Another great source of info is the EMC mail list

dbart

I converted a SM1 a couple of years ago. I would highly recommend the mesa products that PCW_MESA listed. The SM1 used the Electro Craft motors but used a hurco made drive that I was able to...

I'm fairly new at this and done enough over the years with computer to be appreciative of what the folks have done with EMC. Yes the learning curve is steep and you’re learning Linux and EMC at the...

Check out this clip YouTube- EMC2 5 axis cinci at MPM

Check out the Mesa 5i20 with the 7i33 cards for the +-10 servo command.

If you system over 20 years old you will probably gain precision...

Paul

One leg of the output of the phase converter is a created leg. It must not be used to feed the two transformers in the power cabinet. The larger one is the Servo power supply the smaller is a...

That tooling runs about 60 used. I still need a drill chuck!

At $296 I believe will not find a rotary phase convertor for that price. You might find a static convertor I would not use a static...

Paul

Does the tooling in the picture come with it? If so don't let it get a way! I got more in tooling than I do in the machine it had a dead controller.

If it has the hurco FET amps I can...

The factory max traverse rate on a SM1 is 250ipm.

Stay with the servos! Steppers that would equal the servos on torque will not be easy to find and there no stepper that could match the speed. I have a SM1 that I updated the controls as my...

Look at the spindle the Hurco uses Kiwk Switch 200 the cost of tooling adds up quickly. I paid more for tooling than I did my machine that had a dead controller.

If money will be tight go with...

Tony

Why not convert it to EMC2? That's what I did to My SM1 It would not load the tape from the tape reader or emulator.

I now have a large Color display and lots of program storage. Also...

EMC2 will control almost anything using an old PC as a controller. I done a quick search for a TORCAM and could find nothing.

Is this for a business or hobby?

For business use look for a...

Emc2 and Mesa cards are the way I when on my SM1 used the orginal motors and drives.

I used the Mesa PCI card it is a FPGA and there a driver package for EMC2. Look at the 5I20 with a 7i33 and 7i37 at www.mesanet.com With it you can run 4 axis with encoder feedback and 24 o/i points...

EMC2 can run 9 axis on one machine

Even new Fanuc arms have a problem with sigularity.

Chris

I have a Hurco knee mill with a 5I23 and the 7i33 and 7I37. That I need to udate from 2.2.8 to 2.3.2. I still need to set backlash comp and a few other details. would that be a good test....

If your servo are +/- 10 volt then you will need something like the Mesa 5I20 with the 7I33 Servo interface card.

WWW.mesanet.com

Yes I have SM1 in my garage. It's running on single phase with the help VFD for the spindle. It takes a 30 amp circuit to run it.

How big are the parts your looking at making? A small cnc can be...

eScott

I have a SM1 that I converted to EMC2 so that I could keep the servo amps. tjs88yj has one too he when the Mach3 route.

With Mach3 you will only be able to keep the servo power supply...

Is your system a stepper or servo? If a servo then your scaling is off or the the tuning is to far off. If a stepper then contact the mailing list at [email protected].

Don't you just love information overload :D

I think your looking for "HOME_IGNORE_LIMITS" in your INI file set it to yes

Donnie

Check out the 5i23 PCI card and the 7i33 daughter card from Mesa electronics http://www.mesanet.com/ I'm running Old Hurco servos with them.

Donnie