Hi Everyone,
Me and my brother Derek (derekBPcnc) have just positioned the next project in the workshop, as in the photo, a Colchester Master 600 CNC lathe. (First project was a Bridgeport BRJ 1, now running on Mach3).
With the lathe, the intention was to remove the old Anilam Crusader 2L controls and use just the servo motors in conjunction with new drives and Mach3.
As bought the machine was sold as good condition but we had no oportunity to test any of the contols, so had low expectations of anything working. But having swithced on the controller (not drives as the workshop only has 1ph 230vac) all appears to be OK, the x & z dro works fine when moving the slides manually.
The indramat drive in its housing looks mint, not a spot of dust anywhere.
So what to do?
1) Convert the existing controls to single phase, the main trasformer 415
- 90vac will need to be changed along with the controls transformer 415 - 115 to run on 240vac. Use a +-10v to step and direction converter to allow Mach3 to interface with the Indramat drives.
or
2) Rip out and start with new drives powering the exsting motors and control with Mach3.
3) Or even leave the Crusader and drip feed via the RS232.
Main spindle motor will be run off an inverter.
Either way, it looks like a fair bit of work to convert to 240 vac.
Has anyone got experience of converting a Crusader II to 240vac single phase supply?
Is it worth it?
Regards,
Dave & Derek.
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