Ethercat retrofit

Hi everyone!
So I just wanted to show you the last retrofit I did: It consist of servomotor of 16Nm with 15kw spindle. Coe Ethercat drivers + Ethercat IO + Siemens-like Machine control panel (MCP) running also in ethercat. The handwheel is connected to the MCP.
It has an advantech industrial SBC PC.

Any question, more than welcome

Regards
Franco

That looks amazing. Thankyou for sharing nice photos here.

Can you shed some light on ethercat setup.
You modified something in control panel, or you retrofit only with software?

So I made the electronics, (mcp, keyboard, inboard and computer case). That was a prototype, I can upload some pictures of the final thing.
In software it works with the with lcec, ethercat master, and a custom ds402 profile.
I modified the linuxcnc control so you can switch between motor encoder or optical scale (read by the drives). I made a Hal component to handle encoder overflow. Also homing.c was modified to handle ds402 drive homing (several modes)

Regarding HMI this is a prototype using gmocappy lcd7 modified to work with current lcnc version but I am working on a more industry-like , no mouse HMi.

Best regards
Franco

fsabbatini wrote:

So I made the electronics, (mcp, keyboard, inboard and computer case). That was a prototype, I can upload some pictures of the final thing.
In software it works with the with lcec, ethercat master, and a custom ds402 profile.
I modified the linuxcnc control so you can switch between motor encoder or optical scale (read by the drives). I made a Hal component to handle encoder overflow. Also homing.c was modified to handle ds402 drive homing (several modes)

Regarding HMI this is a prototype using gmocappy lcd7 modified to work with current lcnc version but I am working on a more industry-like , no mouse HMi.

Best regards
Franco

Probe basic is Fantastic for HMI
kcjengr.github.io/probe_basic/quick_start.html


I should also introduce new VCP
www.forum.linuxcnc.org/qtpyvcp/40082-mon...for-plasmac-and-mill

Cheers
Pinder

How do you drive and control BK SERVO GS DRIVER.
Can I take a look at your configuration file? Thanks~