Main Cabinet & Power Supply
The controls for the machine include:
Centroid Acorn (of course!) step and direction controller
Centroid Acorn Wireless MPG pendant
AC Servo Motors from a Flash Cut system.
Four Logosol FC-1825E AC Servo Drives grabbed from a FlashCut controller
AnTek Products PS-15N80 1500W 80V Power supply with 24V/5V optional output
DURApulse GS3 series AC General Purpose Drive. 220V 3HP 3 phase output, single phase input
Wiegmann NEMA 1 enclosure, 30x24x8 inch wall mount
A good friend (Marty Escarcega) master minded the build of the control unit. I was handed a shopping list and told to go at it. A week later the unit magically appeared!
Completed control on the left. Acorn is located at bottom center with the servo drives to the right. To the left of the Acorn is the Centroid Relay board. The 40 pound power supply is in the upper right. The connector panel was CNC's from some aluminum sheet, then sprayed with gloss black lacquer. The laser was used to burn away the paint to create the graphics. Installed panel shown at right.
The installed control box. It was HEAVY! The power supply alone was 40 pounds... I had purchased a remote head cable for the the frequency drive to make setting it up easy. This translates to I don't have to crawl around to look into the cabinet at the VFD. I decided that I should just make the control panel a permanently mounted item.