I once worked on an old Sodick wire eroder. It had a large 12V battery built in. But I can't remember to what extent the battery kept circuitry alive in the event of a power fail.
On Tue, 20 Nov 2018 at 19:57, Les Newell <[email protected]> wrote: > I have done quite a lot of maintenance work on various industrial > machines. I can't think of even one machine I have worked on that had a > UPS fitted. I have seen a few with line conditioning circuitry where > they have particularly noisy supply. If power cuts are a regular > occurrence I suppose a UPS may be of some benefit but it would have to > be big enough to run the whole machine, which is likely to be very > expensive. > > Linux is pretty tolerant to being powered off without warning and it is > very rare to get any form of filesystem corruption from doing so. All of > my machines have the computer buried inside and when I am done I simply > turn the whole machine off. I've never seen any problems with doing this. > > Les > > On 20/11/2018 15:06, Thaddeus Waldner wrote: > > I’m in the process of converting a small medium-duty table router to > work with a LinuxCNC controller. I am duly impressed that such a wealth of > technical information and such a powerful and robust industrial automation > tool should be available to the public, free of charge. Many thanks to all > who make it possible. > > > > I have completed a working concept of the controller, as in, I had it up > and running and actually cut some parts. > > > > My question is, *should* a controller such as this have an > uninterruptible power supply? If so, what parts of the machine are normally > served by a UPS? > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
