Maverick302
Aluminum
- Joined
- Dec 24, 2018
I am fixing to hook up a 15" Regal to a VFD. I know I can ramp down decel, and/or add a braking resistor, but I would like to know how difficult it would be to hook up the factory spindle brake to work like originally controlled. My thinking is with the varying loads the lathe spindle will see, an electro-mechanical brake has some advantages. It is a DC input, and if my understanding is correct, the power is applied to release the brake, and cut to apply it (like air brakes on commercial vehicles). Is it a simple matter of adding a DC power supply, or using the factory transformer somehow? Would I be best served by just forgetting about it and using the VFD?