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Unfortunately, after research was completed my proposal for retrofit was turned down. The proposal they chose involves closing the CNC side of the business and selling off their 4020, VMC15 and 6030 fadals. Most/all CNC work to be completed by PO. I will post here in the future if things change.

Be sure you check both the mechanical and electrical speed limits. On the Automation Direct Koyo encoders they have either 5000 or 6000 rpm mechanical limits and 100KHz or 200KHz electrical limits. More ppr (lines) is not always better. For example a 2000 line 100KHz encoder is limited to 100000 ...

You are looking for the information, you should reach out to Arrow. http://www.arrowcontrols.com/contact/
They might sell you the information. Its a lot of work to do such an integration. That effort is worth a price. If I had to spend all that time to engineer, design, write the PLC and create a ...

That is the same with ours. It has, I believe, a 1:2/2:1 belt range to achieve the High/low speed ranges. So, the spindle encoder may help the drive with indexing for the tool change and rigid tapping if I had the old card with whatever else installed. However, This would not suffice with CNC12's ...

Based on the video description and Terry's own video channel it would appear Arrow Controls actually did the retrofit. Mitco machine contracted it out. Regardless, I would be very appreciative if I could get ahold of some sort of documentation on how that or any similar fadal retrofits have gone.

I have attached some photos of the spindle/draw-bar/pulleys and hi/low mechanism. I ca think of two options. First, sleeve the exposed portion of the draw bar, and fit a timing pulley. Second, figure out how to drill and tap the top of the pulleys concentrically around the draw-bar and bolt a timing ...

Great! That was my thought. I was planning on using the 2kw Estun drive and motor package Centroid offers for the X, Y and Z. I have not examined the requirements for the motors on the tool changer yet. I have been hung up around the rigid tapping encoder.

I will keep investigating a mounting ...

Greetings,

I am an automation tech. The company I work for is looking to get rid of their Fadals and I have been researching retrofitting them as an alternative. Do you know of any reason why a 1996 Fadal 6030 with umbrella ATC would not be able to use the OAK controller with ADDPLC1616?

It has a ...