Did you contact the copyright holders for the STG cards and ask them if you can manufacture the product? That would be your first step.
On Fri, 1 Apr 2022 at 19:58, Dominic Francisco <[email protected]> wrote: > Big Howdy to the Group: > Our 501, C-19 non-profit, veteransinitiatives.org, is a small school, > composed of MilVets who have defended this priceless Nation. > Our backrouinds include : Machining, Founding, Patternmaking, > Metallurgy, Physical Chemistry, Heat Treat, Ceramics: a bunch of reprobate > motor-heads, hot-rodders & gear-heads, who remain convinced, even in our > advanced state of degradation, that we shall continue our mfg school to > place our warriors in our Nation's mfg sector. > We purchased one of these splendid, STG motion boards some years ago to > update the control of a 12klb, 1978, 4-axis Monarch VMC; worked like a > champ! > This STG board was capable of 8-Axis with a servo update time of 1 ms. > we retained the original thyristor amplifier which could output ~400 A & > 300 V on start-up. the worktable capacity was ~1600lbs! our for-profit > side regularly whittled out SAE- 4000 series steels for industry. > We sold that VMC to some DisAbled American Veterans (DAV's) we had > trained in our NP & started farming-out work to them, mostly DoD forgings & > castings. > We are now primarily a non-profit helping our warriors find meaningful > employment in our Nation to bring mfg back to the USofA. > Now we find that the STG firm went out of biz, with the un-fortunate > death of its inventor & mfg. now whattarwegonnado? > > We got us 2 plans: purchase several used STG boards to continue > teaching digital control & machine tool rebuilding to our most deserving > citizen, our DAV's. we have also interviewed some ambulatory paralyzed > veterans (PVA's) to join in. > The other crazed choice, is to start mfg the STG board from scratch. > some of our volunteers have experience in industry mfg circuit boards. we > could whittle-out frames to silk screen the traces & set up one of our > small mills to NC the holes. > We have mfg about 50 small circuit cards for the thyristor amps. these > control the beefy thyristors: zero-crossing detector, gate control, > switching, BEMF damping & small-signal routing when reversing the axis > (S-curves on start-up & when approaching the end of axis & corners). > Some of the EMC crew out there may have some suggestions on another > control board (or combination of control cards) we could mfg. > > We are committed to mfg a motion control system. just think of what our > warriors could learn in this esoteric atmosphere; consider their employment > choices! > > We hope to hear from you EMC, LINUX.org & CNC.org participants in this > technical worthy endeavor. > > > May God protect our valiant > warriors, > > don anders > patrick > callahan > giovanni > bertoni > nora o'neille > sean finnegan > > [email protected] > veteransinitiatives.org > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > + > > _______________________________________________ > 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
