I have a Shizuoka AN-S with what looks like a servo and encoder mounted to a sailsbury drive. It's the standard equipment for a bandit 1 and quickdraw toolchanger on these machines, i believe. I'm in the middle of an EMC2 retrofit, and i was wondering what is the best way to incoorperate this into my build. I tried using a vfd, but it doesnt have near enough torque for what i want, so i think this is the only option.
I was wondering if i should use the encoder on the speed control, or should i try to put an encoder on the spindle, so the servo just turns till the spindle gets to the specified rpm's? Not sure if this is easily doable with EMC2. The servo is controlled by the quickdraw toolchanger's logic, i believe, so would it be best to continue using that somehow, or should i but a new servo drive and start from scratch? Can emc control a servo that isnt moving an axis?
I am using stepper motors for driving my machine, if that matters.
I am VERY new to EMC.