Schaublin 125-CNC retrofit.

RotarySMP wrote:

Thanks, save €65 verse butcher 4 Cat 6 cables, pretty good deal, thanks.

Just wondering, by why not just put RJ45 sockets on all the boards which have RS-422 ports? They'd be cheaper than the plug in screw connections, easier to to fab, and easier for the user to integrate.
Mark

I do have them on some boards but sometimes these connections are used for other purposes
(non-sserial devices so a straight through cable could not be used anyway)

The connector cost is about the same

BTW you would only "butcher" 2 cables ( by cutting them in 1/2 )

PCW wrote:

BTW you would only "butcher" 2 cables ( by cutting them in 1/2 )

You know I would have been dumb enough to buy 4 short cables, rather than two longer ones. :-/
Mark

I cut a few connectors off the ends of patch cables before the light bulb went on...

The Schaublin spindle control used:
- 5 big 3-Phase contactors to control star-delta starting, the Dahlander switch between 4 and 6 pole winding, and reversing.


- CNC control of the Variator through transister relay widgets to control the little 3Phase motor in either direction, with end stop feedback




- Pneumatic control of the back gear to switch between 1:1 or 1:6.5 ratios.


The contactors are pretty huge. I am tempted to replace 4 of them with a 3KW VFD, keeping only one contactor for E-Stop. At that point I could just set the variator at some mid setting, and do all speed changes with the VFD and back gear. However, the variator provides than nice torque multiplying, and when matched to the VFD would also open up lower speeds than the 48RPM which was standard. Since the variator is already there, already wired up, and takes only two input and two output pins, I would seem a shame not to keep it.

How would you do the speed control? If I do this, I'll probably need to modify Andy's two speed comp.

How would you program this? Based on selected speed, compared with current speed, first switch gear, then adjust variator and only finally adjust VFD speed command? When in CSS mode, do not adjust back gear, but follow speed command with variator till the limit and then adjust VFD speed command?

Mark

I appreciate your feedback Andy. Please let me bounce my ideas here. Might well be crap

Good thing about the net here in Austria. I even had real three phase in the third floor inner city apartment we used to be in. The oven was on it. Here I have two 3 Ph circuits with 16A breakers and ground fault interupters on them. One has the oven on it, the other one feeds the basement 3 Ph ciruit with the Maho, Drill, Boley and Clarkson. There is a separate 3Ph line coming straight into the basement from the pillar box, with its own CB out there, which just runs the ground water pump for watering. I don't need the VFD for 3 Ph. So there would be nothing to gain by putting the little variator speed change motor onto the VFD output.

Why change anything about the variator control? That little variator control widget from Schaublin is a little stand alone board, so it can go back in.


Then I can just give it speed up or slow down commands via two 24V output pins from the 7i84 until it either reaches the target speed, or triggers the high or low end stop. There is an encoder on the main spindle, so I have feedback there. If a variator end stop triggers, then the VFD frequency could be modified to finish the rest of the speed change (either faster or slower as required, with reason).

Four contactors together is about the size of a 3kW 3-ph VFD, but the VFD doesnt need all the wiring between the contactors so it takes up less total space, doesn't need the filters on the output lines, has much simpler control wiring, doesn't need as many 7i84 outputs, doesn't need the Dahlander windings connected (if I understand correctly as the 750W in 6 Pole mode is about what the VFD would outplut at 25Hz on the 4 Pole windings.)
Mark