Re: Digital Control of an SCR (Thyrister) DC Motor Control Board?
- From: Tim Wescott <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 09:37:41 -0600
On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 10:13:16 -0500, default wrote:
On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 05:48:33 -0800 (PST), paragon36@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxUsually when you go buy a "90V DC" motor it's a brushed, DC motor with no
wrote:
Dear Group,
I currently have a 120/220VAC SCR DC motor controller to power a 90VDC
motor which is connected to a milling machine spindle.
It uses a varible resister / pot to ajust motor RPM.
I wish to control this motor via this board digitaly from the parallel
port of a PC possibly using PWM and Linux EMC2 CNC Software.
How / what could I use to replace the Varible resister / pot?
Also I beleive the pot connection are floating.
Any advice / pointers would be very much appreciated :-)
Regards
SRG
The motor probably already has a PWM controller - more efficient,
lighter, and less costly than other types.
electronics -- the only silicon will be in the lamination iron.
You have three options, ditch the controller altogether and add aThe OP just said that the pot is floating -- moreover, if it's a typical
switching transistor to modulate power using your PWM signal from the
computer. (switching transistor plus other parts)
Or you can convert the PWM to a voltage level and use that to set the
speed through the original pot input. AND if it is reliable that's
what I would do - having seen what happened to a coil winding lathe
where the speed control shorted and the out of balance mandrel flew
out of it.
SCR-controlled circuit there's no isolation from the 120V line, so the
experiment of connecting it to the PC will be a short (albeit exciting)
one.
Or find some software and D to A board that will output a DC level
then use that to directly control a resistive output optical coupler.
http://www.fairchildsemi.com/ds/H1%2FH11F1M.pdf (One such coupler)
This, assuming voltages and resistance levels match, would work.
This guy shows his circuit for controlling a light using a PWM signal
from a controller:
http://www.epanorama.rackhost.net/schematicsforfree/Lights/An_AC_Dimmer_for_Use_with_the_Stamp.PDF
The pwm is converted to a voltage level which is used to adjust the
output resistance of an optical coupler which sets the speed (in his
case light intensity).
You'd want that sort of isolation to keep from having ground loop
problems between the mill and computer.
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