Newbie question about press brake

LinuxCNC doesn't know what type of machine you have. I assume you have two things to control the press and the back gauge. Seems simple enough if you have a way to drive the valves and get position feedback.

John

alfred_j_kwak wrote:

two cylinders - two valves. And both of those cylinders have 5k slide potentiometers. Back gauge is Lenze servo motor with some kind of control card. LinuxCNC should control simultaneous movement of those cylinders - I suppose that one would be master and other one slave.-

Sounds like fun, and eminently possible.

I am using Lenze servo motors on my milling machine. Do you know what form of control input the motor drivers use? If it is analogue voltage then it is all fairly easy.

The motors probably use resolvers, so keeping the original drive cards is likely to be easiest. (Though I am using non-original drives and a resolver conversion card, and that works nicely too, but at greater expense)