Hi Guys, I have just received my AC Servo finally, 2.6kW 240V model. Was trying to google some basic tutorial how to setup servo with my MESA card and LinuxCNC, but for some reason I cant find any documentation for that exact case. I am sure I am definitely not the first person setting up a Spindle with AC servo and its driver, maybe someone knows some good links with "how to" guide or some article that would cover basics? It's my first servo setup. I looks like I can either use a parallel connector on a driver or a RS port there. With RS it is absolutely unclear to me how that connects to MESA board, as it is basically an UART as far as I understand. RX, TX.. etc. Basically looking for some instructions on how to wire data route from mesa board to servo driver, or maybe some example setups that were documented, I could go from there too.
At this point positional control isn't that important to me at all, I am basically just going to use it as a silent higher speed spindle motor upgrade, not going to do rigid tapping at all, not worth it for me, I can do that by hand faster, as most of my parts are soft metals and small. All I need is to be able to enable it, read errors and control speed from LinuxCNC.
Also after reading up on this forum, I settled for poly V belt, not sure how much better or worse that will be vs common timing belts like 3M, going to figure this out soon I guess. One of the reasons to use that is that you can turn those pulleys custom to your size rather easy on any lathe, which is a huge advantage, as you wont need to pay high price, and what's even more important to wait until it gets to you by mail. I guess you could cam and mill 3M pulleys too, but another advantage imo is that poly-V pulleys are self centering and dont need ridges to control belt position. They are supposedly more silent too, but will require much more tension which isn't great but we will see.
