Hi
I have Kollmorgen U12M4 Servo Disc DC Motor and I am hoping to use as a spindle motor for my milling machine.
I am going to add a Mach encoder to the spindle and drive 2/1 ratio mining running a motor faster then a spindle.
Motor has a torque 1316 oz-in or 9.3 Nm and max rpm at 6000 rpm.
Any suggestion for driver or integration whit Mach3
My plan is to ad encoder to spindle top and use Mach3 Pwm output to driver and encoder to read speed (closed loop).
Integration is most of my concern would I be able to do taping (rigid taping or close to it) forward to reverse do I need some braking for spindle?
I build from scratch machine steel tubing frame, linear rails, ball screws and closed loop steppers 2.2 Nm from scratch spindle using car wheel bearings (modified) .
So happy how it turned out how powerful it is and precise considering (all coming from China ) such small motors.
I guess Mach3 can do M3 and M4 (did not check) Pwm and encoder do good job on a lathe could not find mill videos .

Motor spec link https://www.kollmorgen.com/en-us/pro...sc-catalog-en/