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Okay then go for the acorn, Sell the existing Haas axis motors and drives on eBay. Purchase new axis motors and drives that are well documented in the acorn tech sphere and you will be much further ahead of the game. You will get to making parts much quicker rather than spending a lot of time worki...

Another question, would it make sense to adapt a serial encoder? It appears that these encoders are attached to the back of the servo with a separate(ish) housing, and I'm making some assumptions that it operates by spinning some sort of optical or hall effect sensor on the other end of the servo sp...

That motor has a quadrature encoder with A, B (etc.) outputs. It is incompatible with Sigma 5 or Sigma 7, which work with serial encoders. I think the drives only work with a proprietary protocol, but don't have any solid evidence to back that up. I believe you're correct. I did speak to a sales re...

So I have a 2010 Haas TL-1 lathe that I've decided to convert to Centroid control. Does anyone know if the Yaskawa AC servos and Haas branded "smart amplifiers" are usable for anything? The servos appear to be a Sigma 1 and they don't appear to have a readily available driver outside of th...