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Planning the details of our next Centroid conversion. This lathe has live axial and radial tools, as well as a spindle brake. Can the Oak controller and CNC software: 1. Do polar coordinates using the spindle drive as a servo, like Fanuc, Siemens, etc. for drilling operations? 2. Do live profile mil...

Actually, according to Ajax, not even the OPTIC4 is compatible with these Fanuc drives. They looked over the specifications and said they would not be able to support such an installation.


Yaskawa, it is.

Actually, I'm going to call this one largely resolved for now. Look what valuable document I just found:

http://www.ajaxcnc.com/downloads/Techni ... ns/233.pdf

This covers my X axis drive situation perfectly.

I'm hoping to get some recommendations of how to interface the GPIO4D to Fanuc servo drive amps #A06B-6047-H003 (also Fanuc #P470673 or #A20B-0009-320/xxx, for future readers' interest). I've searched the board to no avail so far. I've attached the wiring diagrams associated with these connections t...