Help wanted for Servo Drivers

[kevinl2375]

I am currently looking at refitting out my combo lathe/mill and converting all the drives and hardware to digital.
This way I will be able to run mach 3 etc.

I was after some input from you guys as to what Hardware I would need.
I would also like to have the machine setup so that the lathe spindle could also be used as the 4th axis for the mill.

So far I need or am looking at.

1. Power supply (watts??)
2. Breakout Board ?
3. Servo drivers;-gecko's, granites or cnc drives
4. A control board for each spindle??

I also know I need wiring etc. But is that all the components I will need?
And what do you guys recommend for my list, or is there something that I have totally missed?
Any help will be appreciated.

Spec sheet for the Servo motors is in the link and everything written on motors is below.

Spindle Motors both have the following on them:
Brand: Baldor
Cat: VP3328D
Spec: 33 2085 Z169
HP: 0.5
RPM: 3000
Type: PM 3327P

Servo Motors have:
Brand: Electrocraft
Model: S240 - 1A8
Type: 0240 - 04 - 022

Encoders:
HEDS 5540 I13
9838A

Kev

[ee_t]

180V spindle motor would work best with the granite drive (or some other HV capable drive) and an encoder (~$40)

48V servos should work fine with gecko, just depends if you want to spend the extra cash for granite drives I guess ($114*3 vs. $300*2).


typo on the encoder: HEDS-5540#I13 (5V 512cpr)