I am using them with analog signal. There are no add-in interface cards. Viesturs
2011/9/27 Jan de Kruyf <[email protected]>: > What is the interface? Modbus? SERCOOS? > > j. > > On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 4:37 PM, Viesturs Lācis > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> 2011/9/27 Jan de Kruyf <[email protected]>: >> > Hallo Viesturs, >> > what on earth is wrong with them. Have you got the tuning software from >> > Kollmorgen for these things? >> >> Yes, I have the Drive.exe; BTW it runs very nicely in Wine. >> >> Well, they are very nice servo drives... when they are working. I am >> having difficulties with that. >> Now I have 2 drives working and 2 drives are misbehaving: >> 1) I purchased spare servo drive on eBay. When I received it, it >> turned out that communication with PC is not working. In early spring >> I sent it to TGDrives to fix that. They fixed it (at least they say >> that they changed communications processor). Now I put the drive in >> machine, tried to configure it, but Drive application did not find it, >> so communication still not working. But it should, since it has not >> been used since I received it from CZ; >> 2) the other misbehaving drive is my usual case - I get F25 >> (commutation error) error, I swap 2 servo drives to determine, if the >> problem is in drive (it goes together with drive) or in cables/motors >> (should appear also on swapped drive). The problem turns out to be in >> servo drive, so I send it to TGDrives, they _do not_ find the problem, >> I pay 40EUR diagnostics fee, they send the drive back and it works. >> After some time some other of the three drives shows F25, I send it to >> TGDrives, they find nothing, send it back and the drive works. >> >> I have no idea, what is the cause for these F25 errors, maybe I have bad >> aura. >> >> Conclusion - those drives are great, when they are working. >> Unfortunately they have so much functionality inside, that there are >> so many things that can break/cause error. Since EMC needs almost >> nothing of that functionality, I thought that changing them to some >> simpler servo drive, like 8i20, would be the way to go. I have spent >> more than a year trying to get that machine up and running. I thought >> that I am very close to finish with all the work on mechanics and >> electronics, but now the servo issue is messing everything up. >> Probably I am simply lacking skill and experience with such a >> complicated electronics, I do not know, that is why I would like to go >> with something simplier. >> >> > I just fixed a setup with 5 of these animals on a SERCOS loop (and >> another 4 >> > Indramats) They worked very well once I had the >> > Sercos part nailed. >> > Dont know if customer would be interested to keep spares. Prob to much >> > money. >> >> My offer is 1000EUR for all four of them. I think that 250EUR/piece is >> very cheap, compared to eBay prices. >> For 300EUR/piece I can send all of them to TGDrives for diagnostics so >> that they can give their statement, if there is something to be fixed >> or if the drives are fine. That way the buyer would get qualified >> opinion from 3rd party about the condition of the drives. >> If You purchase them for 300EUR/piece, I do not care, for what price >> would You sell them to Your customer :)) >> >> Viesturs >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a >> definitive record of customers, application performance, security >> threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes >> sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy1 >> _______________________________________________ >> Emc-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a > definitive record of customers, application performance, security > threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes > sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy1 > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy1 _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
