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From: Todor Boshnakov <lz1twb@...>
Date: 2 February 2020, 14:34:23 EET
To: [email protected]
Subject: Logosol motion controller

?Hello, I have several cnc machines based on Logosol hardware- rs485 pci card, BoB and drives. I need to convert the software to MACH 3/4, but cannot find any info of suitable plugins. I want to retain much of the hardware as it is good and working. Any ideas appreciated.

Todor
 

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Hello all, it is strange no one commented on my issue. Logosol seem to be US-made products. I thought you guys should be familiar with them.?

Thanks


On 2 Feb 2020, at 15:42, Todor Boshnakov via Groups.Io <lz1twb@...> wrote:

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Begin forwarded message:

From: Todor Boshnakov <lz1twb@...>
Date: 2 February 2020, 14:34:23 EET
To: [email protected]
Subject: Logosol motion controller

?Hello, I have several cnc machines based on Logosol hardware- rs485 pci card, BoB and drives. I need to convert the software to MACH 3/4, but cannot find any info of suitable plugins. I want to retain much of the hardware as it is good and working. Any ideas appreciated.

Todor
 

Which model control unit do you have? Does your system also use a PCI card installed in one of the accessories slot?
Dan Mauch
 

Here is a quick look on two of the systems, yes there is a PCI card. I am not sure if I can post links here , sorry about that.

PCI card :
Motion controller:
Servo drives :

They are all based around the Logosol Distributed Control Network (LDCN) running on RS-485. Well build devices that have run many years. We want to migrate the software to MACH though as the original one has some restrictions. I believe that with the proper plugin this should not be a problem.

Photos inside the cabinet:?
Thanks.


On Sat, Feb 22, 2020 at 8:41 PM Dan Mauch <dmauch@...> wrote:
Which model control unit do you have? Does your system also use a PCI card installed in one of the accessories slot?
Dan Mauch

 

On Sat, Feb 22, 2020 at 11:33 AM, Todor Boshnakov wrote:
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That's a pretty complex system. I do see that the servo amps can take step and direction signals but then the massive other features would be difficult to get around. I don't think Mach3 can deliver all the features of your current system.
Dan mauch

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Hello, there is nothing complex I think. The machine uses home, limit switches, tool length switch, tool clamp, maybe analog spindle speed control. Nothing that MACH cannot control already.

As I see I can put some Smooth stepper in place of the original PCI/ motion controller and use the original power supply with the drives running at step/dir mode. That is not as bad as I thought in the first place. The RS-485 links will be unused.


On 23 Feb 2020, at 1:18, Dan Mauch <dmauch@...> wrote:

?On Sat, Feb 22, 2020 at 11:33 AM, Todor Boshnakov wrote:
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That's a pretty complex system. I do see that the servo amps can take step and direction signals but then the massive other features would be difficult to get around. I don't think Mach3 can deliver all the features of your current system.
Dan mauch

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It looks like you could take the 2-9 pins of the Smooth stepper for inputs step and direction directly into the servo amps CN8 pins 7 and 13. No sure how the 2310 would interface with mach3 and the SS.
Dan

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