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
the wires go to a connector:
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:
This also has 8 wires all different colors, but the connector is connected in the same fashion:
These are connected to a small board that looks like some sort of protection (has 4 diodes) since its not wired like a rectifier
also attached to this little board is this power resistor that looks like an energy dump:
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
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maybe, but if these are steppers indeed, I wonder why they use a 4:1 reduction, that would be counter productive.
Also, on the square motor, there are two sets of cable of the same color, one set, all the 4 wires are hooked together, wouldn't this prevent the motor of turning due to the induced current?
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upon further reading, maybe these are steppers wired unipolar as you told me, unipolar has less initial torque but the torque curve is flatter, maybe this explains the 4:1 reduction
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Sam, today I was able to remove the motors from the machine and you were right, these are steppers. The obvious confirmation came when I turned the shaft and felt the steps
Already deduced the wiring but I could use some help regarding how to determine their inductance.
Pablo
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To be pedantically correct, they are steppers being used as servos (since they have feedback). Sounds like someone did an interesting sort of roll your own CNC...
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