A good day at work

[Stilldrillin]

Oh..... My! 

It`s just too much to take in.......

"My cup is full, and runneth over".......

David D

[MrFluffy]

Drool, Id love to find that. And its great that your employers let you take stuff.
We get disciplined if we took a thing from the skip, even though our employer has to pay a disposal company to get rid of it per unit at the other end, so we'd actually be saving them money! It nearly makes me cry sometimes walking past 5k bits of test kit just sitting out in some stillage in the rain...

[John Stevenson]

Cheers lads




Sorry if this seams like a bit of a gloat ,,,,,,,,,,

Cheers Rob

Not really, those steppers and drivers are Ok if you are building a clock.
At least it's made me feel better  

[Ned Ludd]

Hi Rob,
Are you deliberately trying to make us jealous, if so you are succeeding beyond your wildest dreams.
Ned

[John Stevenson]

Time I thing for another Ju-ju doll, this time a big bastard with a pin the size of a freaking billiard cue..........

John S.

[Bluechip]

Rob

Looking at one pic. of a 5-phase Stepper ... does it really say 0.57V  1.4A ....

Don't seem much ... ??

Baffled 

Dave BC

[John Stevenson]

Rob

Looking at one pic. of a 5-phase Stepper ... does it really say 0.57V  1.4A ....

Don't seem much ... ??

Baffled 

Dave BC

Yer brilliant isn't it ?

Got as much power as a slice of wholemeal toast, 5 phase to boot.
Someone saw Rob coming on this one, makes up for the other gloats 

[Bernd]

Well Rob I must say I'm very jealous.   But good haul.        

Now then, I bet your not going to get a raise in your paycheck for the next..........oh several years.

Bernd

Google Oreintal Motors. The AC version goes for about $2,100.00. That's US dollars. I couldn't find one on the DC series. Could be that's why they were getting rid of them.

[Bluechip]

Googled Oriental Motors, found a UK site ..

http://www.oriental-motor.co.uk/uk/sites/start.php

Doing a search on the motor Part # in the pic. brings no result ...

There is a reference to PK series motors, but info. doesn't seem to fit ..

??????

Dave BC

[Rob.Wilson]

  cheers John   TWAT

Your eye do not deceive you Dave ,,,,,,,,,,, it dose ,,Looks like its 1.4 amp/ per phase ,,  ,   The   RK SERIES  ,,, is the newer version of what i got ,,, Found the driver/ motor manual on the VEXTA site  for the UPK.W  SERIES  



any good  

Rob
 Edit :  thats MAX thrust load .,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, U = Unit as these were sold as a set motor and driver kit

Bend ,, they are an AC input unit ,,,,,,,,,,, Have a look on Ebay ,,,, stick   VEXTA in
 

[Rob.Wilson]

As John dose not have his voodoo doll up and running ,,,,,,,,,,, this is todays haul 




Cheers Rob

[doubleboost]

Hi
Rob
Do you need an apprentice at work for a few days
John

[Bluechip]

Rob

Dunno, you've not put the column headings in, so it doesn't mean a lot  

Unless it's a winning line on Bingo you've highlighted ... if it's another gloat JS will do his nut ... .... again ..    

Never heard of a 5-phase stepper, although there is no reason why they shouldn't exist. I guess you can get better angular resolution, not sure.

After all, some aircraft use 12-phase alternators rather than 3-phase.

You remember I worked on Automated Tape Libraries in those past dark days of being employed ?? Gives me an idea ..

If you get your steppers, linear wotsits, and that storage racking arranged in a suitable fashion ..

You could have the worlds first

AUTOMATED HOB-NOB LIBRARY ..     ... just a thought .. could be a considered very desirable accessory in some places.

But why the 0.57 Volts ???  That seems very strange ..

Can you measure the coil resistance ? Then V should be I x R ?  ie 1.4A x whatever .. or nearly.

Baffled of Belper ..

Dave BC

 

[Rob.Wilson]

Hi Dave

Oh its strange 



Will get the meter oot the morn

Need a 100v ac transformer to power it

Rob

[Bluechip]

Rob

Can't see any info on electrical data, what's with all the 'overhung load' stuff?
You're not developing some unhealthy fetish about large females are you?
Cold showers and lots of exercise cures that, so I've been told.
Although it's taken 60 odd years to work with me ...just have to be patient.

100 Vac seems unusual, what about 110V ac ??

Trannies with 55 - 0 - 55 secondaries are common.

What VA rating ?

Dave BC

[kwackers]

But why the 0.57 Volts ???  That seems very strange ..

Can you measure the coil resistance ? Then V should be I x R ?  ie 1.4A x whatever .. or nearly.

Baffled of Belper ..

Dave BC

The low voltage is typical of steppers. You need to get maximum magnetic flux as quick as possible to prevent the torque falling off with motor rpm.
So if you have a 0.57v coil and stick that across it, then say it takes 1/10 of second (remember it's an inductor) for the magnetic field (and current) to build up then you can see you wont be able to spin it very fast since you'll want to move to the next step long before the magnetic field has gained any real strength.

To get round this you stick a very large voltage across - usually somewhere between 20 and 200v. As a result the time for the magnetic field and current to build up is significantly less.

Obviously if you keep the voltage at that level the current will very quickly rise past the rated current and fry the motor, so this is where the stepper controllers come in, they monitor the current and switch the voltage on and off (PWM) to keep the current at the rated value - you can often hear this as a whistling or hissing noise emitting from the motor.

[Davo J]

Hi Rob,
You wouldn't get that much gear in a retirement package, lol

Great score on all the stuff, and good to see it going to someone thats going to use it.
You must do a good job at work for those blokes to think of gathering it together for you.

Us hobbyist have to pay high prices to get our bit of gear together for the shed, so it's good to see someone get some gear for nothing.

Dave

[Davo J]

I forgot to add that you need to change the heading to.

Christmas at work, lol

Dave

[Bluechip]

Hi Kwackers

Yup, know about the current limiters etc. Made stepper drivers with the L293 which uses it. Must admit I've never met a stepper motor with a coil voltage as low as 0.57V.

If you work it out the output mechanical HP cannot exceed the DC power input, unless you've invented perpetual motion.

Each phase is apparently 0.57V x 1.4A  ie some 0.8W.

Even with all 5 phases on, (not likely), it only gives 4W  ... or ... 0.0054 HP ?? ..that's if its 100% efficient. Also not likely.

It does have a 100:1 reduction g/box on it .. which will jack up the torque at the expense of revs ..

Still baffled ..

Dave BC

[kwackers]

What's the steps per turn on the output of the gear box?

Steppers have never been known for tremendous power - the falloff with RPM is too great, but they do have decent torque. Most steppers have some for of mechanical advantage (gearbox, leadscrew etc)

However, (and I'm thinking on the fly here). The DC power isn't going to be correct is it??
For example, if you whack 100v across your motor, then at the point the current increases to 1.4A you're actually dissipating 140w at that instance. So whilst the motor is running I'd think the average power in the motor is much higher.
If I'm correct the DC conditions only really apply whilst it's stationary and in a holding phase.

[Bluechip]

Don't really know ..

All I've done is nail some stepper drivers together and they've worked.   

I would think all that happens is the magnetic field in the stepper coil would increase more rapidly than at the nominal voltage.

As soon as the current reached whatever is determined by the sense resistor and the comparator setting it would switch off. Momentarily, until the clock reset the drive, and we start all over again. So, we have some period where there is no drive to the coil. Usual PWM stuff.

Where this leaves the average current I don't know ??

Gonna give up. Just keep thinking in circles ...

Dave BC

[kwackers]

Don't really know ..

All I've done is nail some stepper drivers together and they've worked.  

I would think all that happens is the magnetic field in the stepper coil would increase more rapidly than at the nominal voltage.

As soon as the current reached whatever is determined by the sense resistor and the comparator setting it would switch off. Momentarily, until the clock reset the drive, and we start all over again. So, we have some period where there is no drive to the coil. Usual PWM stuff.

Where this leaves the average current I don't know ??

Gonna give up. Just keep thinking in circles ...

Dave BC

Giving this more thought, if you look at the current curve through the inductor for the values we're considering then we're operating on a tiny part of it at the start so we can consider it to be linear.

If we then assume the motor is spinning fast enough so the controller doesn't do any work (thus removing it from the equation) such that each step occurs just as the max current (1.4A) is reached and the voltage we stick across each phase is 100v.

Then it as we switch phases, the current is zero and over the period until the next step builds up to 1.4A at which point we step and do it again. Allowing for the (essentially) linear part of the curve we're operating on and a power supply of 100v then the average current is 0.7A so therefore the power is 70w.

I'm sure there are other factors, but I think we recognise that there's no way a stepper is only generating a couple of watts - plus this describes a mechanism that explains why power increases with increasing drive voltage...

(That blew some cobwebs away.   )