Motoman K6SB Retrofit
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I have done a bit of looking and cant find a definitive answer.
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With the steppers I am going to be powering them with 80Vac with is nearly equivalent to 100VDC. They should be good for more than 1500 RPM at those voltages. But even so with the large gear reductions in the harmonic drives I do not think ultra high speeds will be necessary for my welding application so they should be fine I hope. We will see.
Steppers speed is not determined by the voltage but by the speed with which the driver can energize the coils. More voltage helps to overcome the inductance. Still I doubt you're going to get more than 1000rpm from nema 23 sized motors. Likely in the 800 range, also you have to Remember that at 1500 you'd have about 60% of the nominal torque. Higher speeds, even less. Driving the steppers faster will make the load of the robot go down, and at some point might reach a point where it can't overcome it's own mass. And because of the large reductions in the reducers the movements will we very slow at max torque speeds.
Cool to see you got those easycat modules. I've ordered one for tinkering myself.
Edit. I dont know specifically about cycloidals but I usually use just lithium grease for gearboxes. Has worked nicely so far.
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The larger motors are Nema 34's rated at 8N.m,
I understand that the torque decreases exponentially but given the starting torque is higher than the original motors torque, when it get to the working RPM it is still around the same torque if not just below.
The reason I brought these motors was not just because they are much cheaper than the DMM servos I was originally going to buy, but because I have used the non braked versions of the Nema 34's on my large industrial CNC plasma and I have not had a single issue performance wise with these motors. They FAR exceeded my expectations of what a stepper motor is capable of, and continue to everyday. I hope I have the same experience with these but only time will tell.
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The main deal breaker for fast stepper motors is inductance, the lower the inductance = the faster they can spin at a given voltage.
And i do have Nema 23 small motors that can do way over 3000RPM at decent torque with 72V and Lam Tehnologies drives.
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Nema 24 looks good, the 34 is on the high inductance side, but still at 100V should be plenty fast. Should be a smidge above 2Mn at 1500 RPM.
The main deal breaker for fast stepper motors is inductance, the lower the inductance = the faster they can spin at a given voltage.
And i do have Nema 23 small motors that can do way over 3000RPM at decent torque with 72V and Lam Tehnologies drives.
Can you tell me what drives those are? I could kinda maybe use those.
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Who? Me?The New NEMA 34 motors I am using with the Lam DS1076a driver Tommy made me buy .......
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