The Hickory CNC controller is now available.

[cnckeith]

Purchase here.
https://shopcentroidcnc.com/hickory-overview/

visit at Marty's CNC garage.
https://shopcentroidcnc.com/cnc-blog/at ... x-arizona/

Current Supported Drives are:

Yaskawa Sigma 7 SGD7S
Estun Summa ED3S
Glentek Gamma 9GE


We are testing Inovance and Leadshine and hope to add them to the approved supported drive list.

[suntravel]

Very cool, now I know what Marty was busy with the last time

Is there a video with the machine running at full speed?

Uwe

[cnckeith]

i asked marty to shoot some video the next time he cuts something, machine is faster with Hickory and nice and smooth.

[adthelad]

Very exciting!

For servo drives that are not currently on the supported list, is this generally a case of figuring out the correct servo drive configuration to communicate with Hickory or are there also software updates ongoing for Hickory to support new drives (things that a user would not be able to do on their own)? Do you see any hope for a user to make things work with an unsupported ethercat servo drive?

Can I ask what servo drives you are currently testing? I have been interested in both the EL8 Series from Leadshine and the Delta ASDA-A2 series.

Thanks!

[cncsnw]

Current Supported Drives are:

Yaskawa Sigma 7 SGD7S
Estun Summa ED3S
Glentek Gamma 9GE

Are there any plans to support the Yaskawa SGD7W two-axis drives?

Is the 5/13/2021 version of the "Hickory Quick Start Guide" still the most current?

[eng199]

Do you see any hope for a user to make things work with an unsupported ethercat servo drive?

Can I ask what servo drives you are currently testing? I have been interested in both the EL8 Series from Leadshine and the Delta ASDA-A2 series.

There is no chance of getting an unsupported drive to work. Possibly this could be remedied with a different configuration method in the future.

Delta ASDA-A2 is not currently an option. It is not entirely ruled out for the future.

EL7 and EL8 series are being tested for possible support.

Are there any plans to support the Yaskawa SGD7W two-axis drives?

Is the 5/13/2021 version of the "Hickory Quick Start Guide" still the most current?

There are currently no plans to support SGD7W. I'm sure that is a model we could support if there is demand for it.

I think the "Hickory Quick Start Guide" will be superseded by individual drive model setup tech bulletins. A HICKORY / Yaskawa setup tech bulletin based on the quick start guide will be available soon.

[adthelad]

EL7 and EL8 series are being tested for possible support.

That's awesome, the EL8 drives in particular look very nice. Do you have any rough idea for timescale on testing these drives?

[77randyc]

Seeing that the yaskawa sgd7s drives are supported, does this mean the sgdv drives with the eathercat option module OCA01A would also be supported. Also where would I find the hickory quick start quite.
Thanks

[Centroid188]

The sgdv drives with the ethercat option module OCA01A are not currently supported.

[adthelad]

That's awesome, the EL8 drives in particular look very nice. Do you have any rough idea for timescale on testing these drives?

Just to be more specific in my question, I would like to use the EL8 drives for a project that I would be looking to complete around October/November. Do you see any hope that the EL8 drives could be working with Hickory by then?