Help identying drivers/system

[TravisR100]

I posted part of this over in the Servo drive forum as some of these may be servo drives and some stepper drives. I recently purchased a large robotic tape library for parts. Out of the host PC I managed to get a Delta Tau Data Systems PMAC-Lite, ISA, Model 602-402-101 driver card. Does anyone know if this card is worth anything?

In another separate box I found what appears to be the "guts" of the system with regards to drivers. I'm going to describe these pictures in order and hope that they post in the order I describe them here.

Picture 1: Top down of the case with the top removed. You can see that the power supply sits to the right with all the "line cards" to the left."

Picture 2: This is the front view with the front cover removed.

Picture 3: This is a rear view showing one side of the card all the line cards plug into. the other side of this card is where all the line cards you see in picture 2 plug in.

Picture 4: This is the first line card which has two DB-9 serial connectors on the front of it.

Picture 5: This is the second line card which appears to be a dual axis Vexta 5-Phase stepper driver. I'm assuming this since the card is labeled Vexta and there were two 5-phase steppers in the system.

Picture 6: Another view of the card in picture 5.

Picture 7: I have no clue what's on this card. Board mounted relays?

Picture 8: This is one of four identical cards. It's labeled Maxon Motor. The system had about four servo motors in it if I remember correctly.

Picture 9: Another view of the card in picture 8

Picture 10: Another line card where all the lines from the power supply connect to.

Picture 11: A close up view of the front showing all the line cards plugged in.

So, my question, does it appear I have something useful here? I don't know what type of power supply this is but it looks very substantial. It has two torroid transformers, one stacked on top of the other. The larger of the two is about 5" in diameter. There also appear to be a few relays in there as well. The tape system these came out of is one made by Adic.

-Travis

[Al_The_Man]

Looks like alot of usefull goodies, in fact if you have the PMAC card hooked up to it and steppers you could run the steppers using DeltaTau native commands.
What software was running it in the PC?
I haven't had much to do with the DeltauTau like I have Galil, but it is similar in alot of respects, check D.T. to see if they have a Terminal Program that you can download to be able to do some tests.
Pic 7 looks like SSR's.
Al.

[TravisR100]

I got the impression from reading the DT web site that this particular DT card was for running servos as opposed to steppers. I have no idea what software they were running as they removed the hard drives from the system. What are SSR's???

[Al_The_Man]

Originally Posted by TravisR100 I got the impression from reading the DT web site that this particular DT card was for running servos as opposed to steppers. I have no idea what software they were running as they removed the hard drives from the system. What are SSR's???

Yes it looks like servo drives, I got thrown when you mentioned steppers, Maxon are usually miniature servos, you could always upgrade if you wanted to.
I know D.T. have a CNC package, probabally not cheap.
SSR's are Solid-State Relays.
Al.

[TravisR100]

Yep, there were a bunch of smaller maxon servo motors on this thing. Also a much larger one. It was maybe 6" long, 3" in diameter (round), and has a Neugart 5:1 geared reduction head on it. I don't have much use for the servo stuff as I'm trying to set up a stepper system. I may at least be able to salvage the power supply out of it.