Recommendations for Restoring Router

[Brian Selle]

If your Ebay drives don't work out, check out Advanced Motions Controls http://www.a-m-c.com/index.html. I used their drives to replace several on my mill at a fraction of the cost of the original Anilam units. Their engineering support was awesome in helping select the drives and then with follow up support to get everything setup and running. They also give big discounts to FRC teams.

[wireties]

Originally Posted by Brian Selle

If your Ebay drives don't work out, check out Advanced Motions Controls http://www.a-m-c.com/index.html. I used their drives to replace several on my mill at a fraction of the cost of the original Anilam units. Their engineering support was awesome in helping select the drives and then with follow up support to get everything setup and running. They also give big discounts to FRC teams.

I bought five old AMCs on EBay! Hopefully they work!

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Advanced-Mot...AOSw~oFXFss I

[AdamHeard]

Originally Posted by wireties

I bought five old AMCs on EBay! Hopefully they work!

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Advanced-Mot...AOSw~oFXFss I

These can be a good choice if you run the right controller (was going to recommend AMC like Brian if you insisted on buying some).

What controller are you planning on running w/ Linux CNC?

Do the motors have encoders or resolvers on them right now?

It sounds like you know what you're doing, and are on the right path. It's certainly more labor intensive to do what you're doing, but you'll end up with a better system.

[wireties]

Originally Posted by AdamHeard

What controller are you planning on running w/ Linux CNC?

Mesa 5124/25 with a +/-10V daughter board.

Originally Posted by AdamHeard

Do the motors have encoders or resolvers on them right now?

I'll find out when I wind them up next week. The cables suggest they have both a tach feedback and quadrature encoder, all balanced signals.

Originally Posted by AdamHeard

It sounds like you know what you're doing, and are on the right path. It's certainly more labor intensive to do what you're doing, but you'll end up with a better system.

Thanks! I'm kinda cheap, gets me into trouble sometimes! The labor is free and I'm getting the students to do some of the work with me.

[Ari423]

Originally Posted by wireties

Thanks! I'm kinda cheap, gets me into trouble sometimes! The labor is free and I'm getting the students to do some of the work with me.

Ah, free slave labor. One of the many benefits of being a mentor

[wireties]

Originally Posted by Ari423

Ah, free slave labor. One of the many benefits of being a mentor

The router is one of the machines in a Makerspace we setup to benefit the FRC team. So in theory the team will get something out of the work - some day!

[AustinSchuh]

Originally Posted by wireties

Mesa 5124/25 with a +/-10V daughter board.

Awesome! That's what we are running. 1 ms cycle with LinuxCNC and it's working great. Ping me if you need any help. I even rebuilt the verilog to support our specific set of daughter boards.

Looks like a fun project!

[wireties]

Originally Posted by AustinSchuh

Awesome! That's what we are running. 1 ms cycle with LinuxCNC and it's working great. Ping me if you need any help. I even rebuilt the verilog to support our specific set of daughter boards.

Looks like a fun project!

Thanks! I might hit you up for some help. All in Verilog, nothing in VHDL?

[AustinSchuh]

Originally Posted by wireties

Thanks! I might hit you up for some help. All in Verilog, nothing in VHDL?

I can't remember. Might have been VDHL. If you dig through the documentation, you can eventually find instructions on how to build a new image, or give me a holler. It took me a solid day to figure it all out. (If you need a prompt response, I'm waaay faster on gchat).