Rutex Drives

[fanucster]

Hello All,

I am new to this Forum and am currently changing over a Fanuc 5M control to run with Mach3 Control Software.

My question is if anyone out there is using the 2020 series or the 90 equivalent to run large motors such as mine, I would like to know how your drive tuning is set up.

My largest motors were run by an SCR type drive and provided lots of power to these motors.

I think the Rutex will work and am very hopeful of this.

If you can get back to me, I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks, Lee.

[Al_The_Man]

What are the Fanuc size number of the motors, 5, 10, 20 ?
Al.

[fanucster]

I have Two 20's and One 5.

Lee

[kkilst]

Normal DC servomotor has 2 wires and 1 ground. But Fanuc DC servomotor has 4 main wires for the power source.
How is the connection arrangment for making into 2 wires ?
I am also interested to retrofit my old machine with Fanuc motor Type 10W,
old one, but still in good shape.
Does Rutex 2010 can cope with this motor ???

[KTP]

You could keep your existing motor amplifiers and use a step/dir to analog output controller board.

I unfortunately sold my Fanuc amplifiers on my VMC conversion long before I developed the Pixie (www.skyko.com) step/dir to analog controller.

I assume since your control was quite old (5M) that your motors are the black cap DC brush types?

[kkilst]

yes, my fanuc dc motor is with black cap, model 10w, 12 Nm cont. stall torque, and current 15 A at cont stall torque.
machine is originally copy-milling machine, i guess the old controller could
not be salvaged.
I understang that Rutex sell dc servo drive for analoq +/- 10 V.
I just want to use the 3 existing motors, and retrofit with completely
new PC based system with Rutex 2010 and Mach3.
Has anybody done this type of project ?
using fanuc old servodrive can be difficult, buying old parts is not available,
and there is o proper documentation.