Toroidal power supply and Gecko stepper questions

rodw wrote:

txtrone wrote:

To get the most out of these drives, you need to enable the boost feature. This requires a non standard component like you are using for your down draft.

Tommy uses Lam drivers and he was the one htat put me on to them

My downdraft solenoids are connected directly to my Mesa 7i76e board, and are operated by the HAL file/program that you wrote... which is working like a charm!

Can you provide me with a link to the nonstandard component I would need to use, along with the lam driver?

Actually, would you mind listing the motors, drivers, power supplies, and the non standard component(s)?

thefabricator03 wrote:

I have been using this Antek power supply to power my four Nema 34 8nm closed loop steppers controlled by my Leadshine ES-D1008 drives for two years without any issues.

www.antekinc.com/ps-15n73-1500w-73v-power-supply/

I am running each drive at 72 VDC.

Only problem I had initially was the current draw when I turned on the power to the toroidal was too much for the circuit breaker I was using and it would trip. I replaced the circuit breaker with a "D"curve breaker and all is well.

thefabricator03 wrote:

These are the motors, I have the model with the 1/2" Shaft,
www.americanmotiontech.com/products/prod...or-1000-line-encoder

And these are my drives,
oceancontrols.com.au/SMC-184.html

I have not had any issues with my motors ,drives and toroidal power supply. I am very happy with how they perform on my large machine.

tommylight wrote:

txtrone wrote:

What drivers would you go with?

I was afraid you will ask that !
Lam Tehnologies, of course, always ! But they do cost nearly as much as a china servo system.
Try machapro.de, they had DS1044 and DS1076 about 30% lower than the rest.
To clarify something no one ever asked, i use switchmode power supply's always as where i live the power fluctuates a lot so during summer it goes over 250V for prolonged durations, so using a transformer is out due to those fluctuations messing the output voltage. E.G. your case a 70V toroid will output 81.136V when the input goes to 255V ! Rarely that goes to 260V during summer, 170V during winter, normally it sits around 196-244V always.
Rod means they have a BOOST feature that he uses to lower the current when stationary AND when cruising at normal velocity, but gives it the "beans" when accelerating and decelerating.