Originally Posted by jmelson  I have just developed a signal converter that allows Fanuc red cap brushless motors to be used with Pico Systems, as well as other brushless drives. The problem was that Fanuc had a proprietary scheme for encoding the commutation information. My converter reads the proprietary position information at startup and converts to standard Hall signals. Once the motor has passed the index position, the converter counts the quadrature pulses to determine the right commutation phase.
I will be demoing a prototype of this at the EMC Fest in Wichita May 21-27, and should have it out as finished product in about a month after that.
Jon |
If you like I can get you some dimensions for this. I have a Fanuc Robot S5 I sent you a PM with a link. It has 5 servos on it and I think the top 2 are teh same size and the lower 2 are the same and the very bottom is different as well... I just got it Today givin to me from my Work!!!! I was so excited about it. I got the Controller the 2 hand held Wands or computers all the cables! The Robot its self works just fine! The controller is screwed up but the instructor said the drivers and encoder just might be able to be salvaged...