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Originally Posted by Operator
.030".....HA, thats hogging metal on my baby mill! 
How many channels does that take to run?
Looks like you got a couple inverters for the 12v? or 24?
Could you take a brief min. and kinda explain to me how the machine is wired? like inverter to? to? and motor goes to? and so on.
You can PM me if you don't want to clutter your thread up. I'll have a bunch of ?
Thanks
Matt |
I made another one of those plates tonight. New endmill but kept the same program. Saw where I can make improvements on the program and shave about a half hour off. I didn't want to change it till I go to the RH pieces. I'll go with about 3ipm and a .05'' cut next. That's architectural bronze CDA385 I have laying around alittle harder than the free machining CDA360 leaded brass. One of the reasons you can't plow through fast. That stuff wears out tools surprisingly fast.
As far as channels, I'm using 3 : dragging/walking,hoisting, swinging, I will need a couple more to set the drag and walking brakes.One for the walking jaw clutch. Maybe another for turning the lights on off. Horn? I have a DX7 radio (overkill)
110VAC Power is run into the tub then through a 6 conductor slip ring. then the power goes to a relay that is manually controlled back at my power box for safety purposes to kill it if something happens or someones fingers get in there. After the relay the voltage is fed to the 3- 90VDC 4 quadrant regenerative drives and a 5VDC power supply. The RC part comes from the 3 ESC's attached to the reciever and then each is individually wired to the 3 regen drives. Power to operate the Receiver and ESC'c comes from the 5VDC power supply. The ESC's put out a +5 or-5V signal and that is fed to the drives and they start when the voltage comes in. The drives are then wired to three 90VDC perm. magnet motors,1/29hp=hoist 1/17hp=swing 1/8hp drag/walk. The whole deal draws only 1.5a not to mention when I'm lowering the hoist, I'm generating power back into the incoming 110VAC line. Pretty simple only took me 8yrs and a bunch of $$ and trial and error.
My big plan is to hard wire the whole machine and control it with the original operators controls from a 1:1 machine. All I have to do is pull all the electronics off and put them back to my operators station and put a slip ring in with more conductors. I could also tear apart my radio and install the pots on the stick to my 1:1 controls.
RC just made it alot easier to do.