Wiring a C11g Board and Gecko 203v for lathe

[adbradley]

I am retrofitting a lath with a C11g Board from cnc4pc and 2 Gecko 203v drives. The motors are Centronic y200 3424 a8 8 wire steppers. The power supplies are 70vdc IMS. I have attatched the manuals for the motors, drivers, power supplies and the C11g Board. I have also attatched a wiring diagram i drew up. Could someone please review it and let me know what im missing, or what is not correct.

[Maurice]

I am retrofitting a lath with a C11g Board from cnc4pc and 2 Gecko 203v drives. The motors are Centronic y200 3424 a8 8 wire steppers. The power supplies are 70vdc IMS. I have attatched the manuals for the motors, drivers, power supplies and the C11g Board. I have also attatched a wiring diagram i drew up. Could someone please review it and let me know what im missing, or what is not correct.

hi adbradley
I recently bought a same lathe as your and because it was at a good price the electronic is not working properly. I'm presently using Gecko drive for my cnc router and I was wondering if I could use your design to installed on me lathe. I know your still building but this is the way I want to go.
thanks for your time
Maurice

[adbradley]

Maurice

Thats awesome, always like to hear of another orac use out there. Here is a pic of my component mounting board that i built for my orac. Please e-mail me at adbradley@terracon.com i have lots of information, drawings, and diagrams to share.

Adam

PS. if anyone sees anything thats horrably wrong in this picture, please reply!

[Maurice2]

Hi Adam;
I'm stripping most of the electrical in the lathe .Is there any of the power supply I should keep. or it won't work with the knew set-up. I don't see any in your picture.
Maurice

[adbradley]

It depends on what power supply your orac came with, there were 2 designs, can you post a picture of the one you have?

Adam

[Maurice2]

Hi Adam;
since I wrote you I found more thread were I see MikeMill has shown you picture of his set-up. I have the same as his mine right now is set-up for 220 single phase but I have most of the stuff out of the machine. It has a couple of large capacitors, a toridial (round) transformer on top of transformer diode rectifiers.
I see he also used Gecko system. Whatever info you can get let me know
thanks
Maurice

[adbradley]

Sounds like you have the power supply that is useable. You should contact him and get more info on his setup. As i stated before, my power supply was not the same, so i had to purchase a new one.

[Crevice Reamer]

Hi ad. The motor specs cover several motors. What size motors are you using?

CR.