Can a Fenner servo drive replace a Servo Dynamics?

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16 Apr 2012 19:23 #19254 by drembedded
Can I replace my Servo Dynamics board with this Fenner board? The Z Axis Servo Dynamics SD1525-10 board died on me. I have a spare Fenner SDF1525-16 board.

I believe that the Fenner board supports up to 160Vdc and the Servo Dynamics board is good to 110Vdc. The boards look _very_ similar with the same connectors in the same locations. And I believe that Servo Dynamics may have purchased Fenner at some point (or the other way around)

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16 Apr 2012 22:14 #19255 by PCW
You can certainly give it a quick try by connecting motor and tach and
seeing if the analog input will drive the motor each way
(a 1.5V cell and a 1K series resistor is a good test source)

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17 Apr 2012 03:39 #19273 by drembedded
Peter, thanks for the suggestion.

Gave it try and didn't let the smoke out :-)

So went fro broke and connected up the 7i77 and was able to move the Z axis with MDI commands.

I suspect that the Fenner sdf1525-16 can have 160 volts as the source. The sd1525-12 can have up to 120 volts. Maybe the difference is that using the Fenner, I may not get as much current so slower rapids (but that's only a guess).

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