Recommendation for Max ripple voltage for DC servo drives?

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06 Feb 2021 22:03 #197876 by Dbsharp
I just got a CHNC with GN6 controls. This has 90v HIAK servo drives. The previous owner "converted" this machine to single phase. I have been chasing quite a few issues down, one of them I think may be due to the extra ripple voltage I would be getting from having a rectified single phase vs 3 phase coming to the servo drives.

To size a suitable cap for this I would need to know what is a reasonable level of ripple voltage for input power to DC drives such as this.

The problem I think may be a result of this is the velocity feedback I am getting from the revolvers looks like the sound wave of an instrument while the axis is in motion.... Also to be noted, is that this setup has the resolver and tach (I dont think I use) on the ballscrew and there is no feedback on the servo itself.

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06 Feb 2021 22:15 #197878 by andypugh
How are you reading the resolver velocity?

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07 Feb 2021 21:01 #197955 by Dbsharp
MESA 7I49, I have not had a chance yet to dig in and to verify this was actually setup correctly.

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09 Feb 2021 00:29 #198106 by andypugh
Servos drives are generally pretty resilient to DC bus voltage variation. I doubt that is your problem.

The resolver excitation is via a low-voltage supply on the 7i49 so is isolated from the servo drive bus.

So I assume that you are trying to work out if the motor speed is changing with the bus voltage? I would guess not. What is the frequency of the variation? Does it seem plausible that the motor speed could change that fast?

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09 Feb 2021 00:56 - 09 Feb 2021 01:13 #198108 by Dbsharp
Thanks Andy. This video is of the x axis before I started messing with anything... The increments of motion seen here can be felt when the drives are off, I'm guessing the permanent magnets give it this feel. When I removed the X belt, it feels smooth as butter.

Not sure this is related at all to the waveform I have seen with the resolver feedback. I haven't measured the frequency of the feedback "ripple" from resolver velocity, but I think it would be within a rough order of magnitude of the ripple frequency from the rectified single phase.

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09 Feb 2021 00:57 #198109 by Dbsharp
Just to illustrate the reason I suspect ripple voltage may be an issue, especially if the old cap is toast.
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09 Feb 2021 06:51 #198123 by scotth
Have you looked at the sine and cosine feedback. I have seen missing one give the same results on other systems. This is just a guess never working with the 7i49 but inductosyn systems will do this and find null every half cycle.

Scott

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09 Feb 2021 17:21 #198166 by andypugh
In the video are you driving the motor closed-loop at constant speed?

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09 Feb 2021 17:21 #198167 by andypugh
Maybe make a degree disc (nound to be one on the net) and plot out the 7i49 angle against actual angle.

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10 Feb 2021 14:40 #198279 by Dbsharp
Thanks everybody for the suggestions. I will look into setting up the resolver properly and make sure it was done right. I assumed because it traveled the actual correct physical distance as linux cnc shows they would be setup correctly.

I did get a shot of this x axis last night at "15" ipm jog.... actually varied from 9 to 16 by halscope readings...

My silly scope let out the smoke last night when I was trying to view dc and servo output waveforms.... now I will attempt the open heart surgery on this old machine....

Also notable I measure 0 capacitance on the rectified dc input to the servos when off, I think they have a cap but its tucked behind other parts and I can just see the edges of a large cylinder. Maybe the enable input switches incoming power circuit when off?

Also notable I measured a little over 100v dc and I know this system is supposed to be 90v.


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