Leadshine L5-400 <Compatible with Acorn?, Yes>

[Nanoreactor]

I have L5-400 servo drives, are they compatible with Acorn? Searching isn't turning up any info

[suntravel]

If they have a position mode with step and dir signals they are ok.

Do you have a manual of the drivers?

Uwe

[Nanoreactor]

Yes i have the manual. It has position mode and pulse+/- and dir +/- inputs on the driver. So those take the inputs from the acorn and i just need to adjust the parameters in the driver to make the motors behave themselves?

[suntravel]

Yes it would work if the servo parameters are set up according to Acorn settings.

Uwe

[centroid467]

Yep!

You'll probably want to try the DB25 header on Acorn for the step and direction signals.

Drive parameters should be set something like this:
Pr0.01 = 0 for position mode
Pr0.06 is either 0 or 1 to make it turn the correct direction
Pr0.07 = 3
Pr0.09 = 1
Pr0.10 = 1
(Pr0.09 and Pr0.10 set to 1 should make it so that the ratio between input pulses and the motor movement in encoder counts is 1:1. I believe this means that the Steps/Rev setting in the Acorn Wizard should be 10,000)


Of course, you'll need to follow the drive's manual to tune the motors to the load and so on.

[Nanoreactor]

Fantastic. Thank you everyone. Very helpful community.