Need Help!- Yaskawa SGM-02B312 & SGD-02BS

[TurdCurd]

I have come across a few, 9 each, of the Yaskawa SGM-02B312 AC Servo Motors and SGD-02BS Servopacks. I want to turn a mini mill into a CNC but need A LOT of help with the electronics. I want to either use MACH3 or LinuxCNC on the PC but I don't know what else I need or even if I can use what I have. I am willing to trade some motors and servopacks for items that I would need and also for saying "thanks" for helping me. So, Help, what do I have? What does a servopack do? What else do I need? yada, yada, yada.
Thanks, Richard.

[TOTALLYRC]

If you are in or near CT I would be willing to help. I will of course answer questions that I have an answer to when time allows here on the Zone.
Mike

[jalessi]

Richard,

I am about 45 minutes north of you, near Gurnee.

I would be happy to help.

Do you have a instant messenger?

Welcome to the Zone,

Jeff...

[TOTALLYRC]

Originally Posted by jalessi TC, I am about 45 minutes north of you, near Gurnee. I would be happy to help. Do you have a instant messenger? Welcome to the Zone, Jeff...

Hey Jeff, I wondered how you knew where he lived then I checked his public profile.
And I thought you were psychic.

Mike

[jalessi]

Mike,

I figured I would check to see where he was located before I opened my big mouth and offered to help.

Jeff...

[sarfrazahmed9]

Hi TurdCurd!

Yaskawa SGM-02B312 AC Servo Motors and SGD-02BS Servopacks are 200watt analog drives. You can not use them with mach3 etc. these software require digital signal(Pulse & Direction) supported drives. You must have SGD-02BP or SDGP-02BP drives to work with mach3. If you have them i will help you. I have used Mitsubishi and yaskawa drive lots of time. If you wanna sale them give me all the model no. of the drive you have and price.

[TOTALLYRC]

Originally Posted by sarfrazahmed9 Hi TurdCurd! Yaskawa SGM-02B312 AC Servo Motors and SGD-02BS Servopacks are 200watt analog drives. You can not use them with mach3 etc. these software require digital signal(Pulse & Direction) supported drives. You must have SGD-02BP or SDGP-02BP drives to work with mach3. If you have them i will help you. I have used Mitsubishi and yaskawa drive lots of time. If you wanna sale them give me all the model no. of the drive you have and price.

Mach3 now has several options to use analog drives. The dspmc for one and the kflop with kanalog option for 2.
I also believe there are more but they escape me at the moment.
There is also the yaps10 which is similar to a pixie. Search the zone for more info.

[sarfrazahmed9]

Yes, but for a novice or newcommer for understanding the cnc operation it is better to use pulse direction drive because the work similairly to stepper drive.It require not any additional hardware .Just a computer with parallel port.

[jalessi]

Sarfrazahmed9,

No worries, we have lots of experience with the Yaskawa parts.

Have a most awesome day,

Jeff...

[sarfrazahmed9]

Okey did you ever use the fanuc drives with mach3?

[mactec54]

sarfrazahmed9 is right in what he is saying, These drives will not be easy for you to get going

They are the right drives for CNC, But you will need the hardware & software to make them run, Your motors are fine but may be a little on the light side, they are only 90oz & max to 270oz, The most universal drive is the SGDA which can be run any way you want.

Your Drive SGD-02BS The B stands for 100V the S stands for speed control/torque control The P if you had it stands for position control,

When you have a drive with position control, you can use Mach software, which put out step/dir straight to the servo drive, this makes for a easy set up, you just need a break out board, to do your wiring from computer port to the servo drive.

[TurdCurd]

I can easily switch the BS packs for BP packs, there a lot of them. The place I'm getting them have too many and because I'm helping them reorganize, they said I could take what ever I needed. I took the BS packs because I don't have scales on the machine and the guy said I would need them with the BP drives.