Originally Posted by
joeavaerage
Hi,
the Delta A2 drive has a secondary encoder which is conventional incremental....but it can close the position loop only. The servo drive requires the primary
17 bit or 20 bit encoder directly attached to the shaft of the servo in order to enact the Field Oriented Control algorithm. Without the primary encoder you're buggered.
I think you'd be better off getting either a genuine Delta A2 servo OR a genuine SEM drive.
The likelyhood is that if you try and adapt them together you'll end up with no result and worse, now a useless drive and a useless servo.
Craig