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Subject: RE: [BCDA] Recommendations for high-power electrically quiet stepper motor driver
From: Mark Rivers <[email protected]>
To: "'Kurt Goetze'" <[email protected]>, "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, "'Beamline Controls'" <[email protected]>, Beamline Controls and Data Acquisition <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 21:43:36 +0000

Hi Kurt,

 

Is there one of these available that I could test with for a day or two?

 

Thanks,

Mark

 

 

From: Kurt Goetze [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2014 1:25 PM
To: Mark Rivers; [email protected]; 'Beamline Controls'; Beamline Controls and Data Acquisition
Subject: Re: [BCDA] Recommendations for high-power electrically quiet stepper motor driver

 

Hi Mark,

You may want to take a look at the Phytron ZMX+ :

http://www.phytron-elektronik.de/antrieb/index.php?Set_ID=160&PID=43

We don't have a lot of experience with this module yet, but our past experience with other Phytron drivers has been that they've been very reliable and don't cause the kind of noise problems you're seeing with the Next Step.

Our U.S. contact for Phytron is Wahid Lahmadi ([email protected]).

Kurt


On 9/30/2014 12:44 PM, Mark Rivers wrote:

Folks,

 

I am looking for some advice on driving some large stepper motors.  The motors are:

 

Slo-Syn MH172-FD-8030.  Size: 17 cm diameter, 30 cm long. Ratings: 2.3 VDC, 15.0 amps.

Slo-Syn MH112-FJ-4201. Size: 10 cm diameter, 26 cm long.  Ratings: 3.2 VDC, 4.0 amps.

 

We are currently driving these motors with Industrial Devices Next Step driver modules, using step and direction inputs from an OMS-58 VME motor controller.  The Next Steps run directly from 120 VAC, so they are capable of drive voltages well in excess of 100V.  They are all set to 6 Amps/phase.  The motors move fine. 

 

The problem is that the Next Step drive modules use PWM and are electrically very noisy.  Under certain conditions they can cause noise pickup on other motor step lines from the same VME crate, causing motors to move when they should not.  The noise also makes it impossible to conduct some experiments with low-level RF signals (like ultrasonics) near the motors, unless the Next Step drivers are turned off.

 

We tried to drive these motors in the past with the ACS SPD-6B driver.  This is a linear driver capable of 6 Amps/phase, but runs from a 48V supply.  We were unable to get it to drive the large motors at a reasonable speed.

 

I am looking for recommendations for a stepper motor driver that can drive these motors, but is much less electrically noisy than the Next Step. I would like a module that accepts step and direction inputs, rather than being a stand-along controller, so we don’t need to change software.

 

Thanks,

Mark

 

 




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