retrofit Bridgeport Prototrak Plus

I am still working on a power supply replacement if the repair does not work out. This link "www.teknic.com/products/servo-motor-dc-power-supply/ " shows a power supply that is the smallest power supply they offered. Does anybody have an opinion on how this would work as a replacement.

Many thanks in advanced!

andypugh wrote:

Well, it's not cheap, but it is designed for the job.

I have generally made my own, but that relies on finding an enormous and expense capacitor on eBay.

My solution has been to use a bank of smaller "snap in" capacitors. I buy them from Mouser in the US, they seem to have the best prices. These are relatively modest-sized capacitors, maybe 4700 uF at 80V or so. The idea is that paralleling half a dozen $12 capacitors is a much better deal than multi-hundred $ capacitors, just to get them all in one package with screw terminals. What I do is drill holes in a piece of copper-clad circuit board laminate to accept the capacitor terminals, and carve a groove in the copper to isolate a + and - region of copper.

Jon

Andy do you recognize the servo amplifier like this one. www.ebay.com/itm/Maxon-DC-Motor-Control-...xkBKRZa7Sa3EcXqfUiLg it appears like it should work for a set of drives like the MagneTek and Baldor DC drives like I have. What do you think? I had asked about the "Teknic, Inc." power supply in an earlier post, these the amp is in the drives, so only 2 wires coming out, fixed voltage.

many thanks!