Servo Dynamics brushed dc servo (sd1525) tuning
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07 Dec 2015 01:07 #66533
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I started a linuxcnc conversion on my Bridgeport and have never completed it so its about time to finish! I've updated to 2.7 and am following John's pid tuning tutorial: gnipsel.com/linuxcnc/tuning/servo.html
But first I need to tune my servo drives. You know you've got old equipment when the instruction manual was typed on a typewriter! So page 16 describes the "Simplified System Setup" process but right off the bat I've hit a snag: in the "preset the pots as follows" section it says to turn the pots fully ccw. This doesn't make sense as these pots don't have a "stop" in either direction: I can turn the pots ccw and cw till the cows come home.
Can someone who has tuned an SD1525 before provide some insight?
But first I need to tune my servo drives. You know you've got old equipment when the instruction manual was typed on a typewriter! So page 16 describes the "Simplified System Setup" process but right off the bat I've hit a snag: in the "preset the pots as follows" section it says to turn the pots fully ccw. This doesn't make sense as these pots don't have a "stop" in either direction: I can turn the pots ccw and cw till the cows come home.
Can someone who has tuned an SD1525 before provide some insight?
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07 Dec 2015 16:35 #66559
by andypugh
Multi turn pots generally start to make a very faint clicking noise when a the end of travel.
However, I have not seen pots with any more than 25 turns, so you can be pretty sure that after 25 turns they are all the way CCW.
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This doesn't make sense as these pots don't have a "stop" in either direction: I can turn the pots ccw and cw till the cows come home.
Multi turn pots generally start to make a very faint clicking noise when a the end of travel.
However, I have not seen pots with any more than 25 turns, so you can be pretty sure that after 25 turns they are all the way CCW.
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08 Dec 2015 03:39 #66607
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Had my hopes that this was the case but for both the Servo Dynamics SD1525 and the Fenner SDF1525 cards there wasn't any ticking or clicking. Even with a stethoscope, no joy.
While I was checking I noticed that the drive cards are mounted to a metal card. The backside of the drive cards are covered by the metal card except for the area right underneath the potentiometers/trimmers. That got me thinking that maybe I can turn the pots while using an ohm meter (with the power turn off) to find out when I'm at a "stop".
Since a potentiometer is a length of coiled wire with a "wiper" that travels across the coiled wire (pins 1 and 3 are connected to each end of the wire and pin 2 is connected to the wiper): by rotating the pot CCW the resistive reading between pins 1 and 2 or 2 and 3 should go to 0. When it does I know that the pot is in the fully CCW position.
Shouldn't take long to test this theory out....
While I was checking I noticed that the drive cards are mounted to a metal card. The backside of the drive cards are covered by the metal card except for the area right underneath the potentiometers/trimmers. That got me thinking that maybe I can turn the pots while using an ohm meter (with the power turn off) to find out when I'm at a "stop".
Since a potentiometer is a length of coiled wire with a "wiper" that travels across the coiled wire (pins 1 and 3 are connected to each end of the wire and pin 2 is connected to the wiper): by rotating the pot CCW the resistive reading between pins 1 and 2 or 2 and 3 should go to 0. When it does I know that the pot is in the fully CCW position.
Shouldn't take long to test this theory out....
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08 Dec 2015 06:40 #66610
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Here's several of the pages showing the potentiometer description and tuning process
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