toolnuts
Cast Iron
- Joined
- Sep 27, 2009
- Location
- washington
Hi all,
I was wondering what this community of Euro mill owners
will do when their controllers die?
Will you try to get it fixed or opt for a retrofit?
The only retrofit that I've heard about is from Dr. Deckel,
and it's not cheap.
Most of your machines are getting older and have a limited
time left. I had an older machine, out of the 80's that died
15 plus years ago. I sold it because I didn't think it was
worth the effort to fix it.
Will you try to do a refit on your own?
I was thinking that I would try to do a retrofit and make
the information available, on how to do it, to this community.
I know Ross has thought about it because he has replaced one
axis as a test to see how it would work.
I think the simplest retrofit would utilize most of the existing
components - servos, tachometer, servo amplifier, and wiring.
As those components are analog, they are of more performance
than the controller - put in a new controller and your performance
will be greatly enhanced.
I think the Centroid control would be a good candidate control.
They are reasonably priced and the documentation is good.
I'm sure there are other good candidates that I don't know about.
Once you get away from using most of the original components
the cost goes up accordingly. You could go to AC servos, but then
you would need new servo amplifiers, ....etc.
Just some thoughts.
What are your thoughts?
Paul
I was wondering what this community of Euro mill owners
will do when their controllers die?
Will you try to get it fixed or opt for a retrofit?
The only retrofit that I've heard about is from Dr. Deckel,
and it's not cheap.
Most of your machines are getting older and have a limited
time left. I had an older machine, out of the 80's that died
15 plus years ago. I sold it because I didn't think it was
worth the effort to fix it.
Will you try to do a refit on your own?
I was thinking that I would try to do a retrofit and make
the information available, on how to do it, to this community.
I know Ross has thought about it because he has replaced one
axis as a test to see how it would work.
I think the simplest retrofit would utilize most of the existing
components - servos, tachometer, servo amplifier, and wiring.
As those components are analog, they are of more performance
than the controller - put in a new controller and your performance
will be greatly enhanced.
I think the Centroid control would be a good candidate control.
They are reasonably priced and the documentation is good.
I'm sure there are other good candidates that I don't know about.
Once you get away from using most of the original components
the cost goes up accordingly. You could go to AC servos, but then
you would need new servo amplifiers, ....etc.
Just some thoughts.
What are your thoughts?
Paul