Allin1DC Baldor 150VDC Servo Voltage Question

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Re: Allin1DC Baldor 150VDC Servo Voltage Question

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I just built and tested an exact replica of the capboard connected without a transformer today.
I found with 180 ohm load the voltage drops to 145 VDC RMS. I have not yet, but I believe if I put my Oscilloscope on it I would find that the tops of the ripple are being knocked off....
If you want more measurements, write back, I am retrofitting an anilam 1100, but nothing is wired yet. The anilam motors are 140 volt. I reused the old components except for changing the capacitor to a 120,000 microfarad capacitor and an adding an Antihrium 25 amp inrush limiter in between the bridge and the capacitor.. These motors ran for over 30 years on this supply. If you carefully limit the maximum allowed speed in the setup of the allinone, you should never reach 150 volts. I don't know the exact voltage/speed ratio of your motors, but if you start at a very slow speed limit and measure the voltage while running at the limit, then repeat while slowly upping the limit, you will find a happy sweet spot compromise. Don't set faster than the slowest speed you can live with, keeping in mind that you want to keep your voltage under an arbitrary safe upper limit. Give yourself some room for transients, etc. according to the slowest fast speed you can live with. Why not post your measurements? Let us know how it turned out..
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Re: Allin1DC Baldor 150VDC Servo Voltage Question

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BartakamosRex wrote: Thu Feb 18, 2021 5:22 pm I thought of that, but I didn’t want to buy an expensive transformer to find that it wasn’t supplying enough voltage. I wasn’t sure what the calculation is to figure that out— is it just as simple as applying the percentage?
Yup. Transformers are all about the turns ratio. There are some small losses in transformers, but essentially the turns ratio = the voltage ratio, the VA is the same in both sides, and it doesn't matter which is primary and which is secondary.
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Re: Allin1DC Baldor 150VDC Servo Voltage Question

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cncot wrote: Thu Feb 18, 2021 7:29 pm I just built and tested an exact replica of the capboard connected without a transformer today.
I found with 180 ohm load the voltage drops to 145 VDC RMS. I have not yet, but I believe if I put my Oscilloscope on it I would find that the tops of the ripple are being knocked off....
If you want more measurements, write back, I am retrofitting an anilam 1100, but nothing is wired yet. The anilam motors are 140 volt. I reused the old components except for changing the capacitor to a 120,000 microfarad capacitor and an adding an Antihrium 25 amp inrush limiter in between the bridge and the capacitor.. These motors ran for over 30 years on this supply. If you carefully limit the maximum allowed speed in the setup of the allinone, you should never reach 150 volts. I don't know the exact voltage/speed ratio of your motors, but if you start at a very slow speed limit and measure the voltage while running at the limit, then repeat while slowly upping the limit, you will find a happy sweet spot compromise. Don't set faster than the slowest speed you can live with, keeping in mind that you want to keep your voltage under an arbitrary safe upper limit. Give yourself some room for transients, etc. according to the slowest fast speed you can live with. Why not post your measurements? Let us know how it turned out..
This sounds like a dood suggestion. I will wire up some bench test scenarios and see what happens. I don’t have a scope yet— any suggestions for an app based scope and some hardware to take readings?
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Re: Allin1DC Baldor 150VDC Servo Voltage Question

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tblough wrote: Thu Feb 18, 2021 8:07 pm
BartakamosRex wrote: Thu Feb 18, 2021 5:22 pm I thought of that, but I didn’t want to buy an expensive transformer to find that it wasn’t supplying enough voltage. I wasn’t sure what the calculation is to figure that out— is it just as simple as applying the percentage?
Yup. Transformers are all about the turns ratio. There are some small losses in transformers, but essentially the turns ratio = the voltage ratio, the VA is the same in both sides, and it doesn't matter which is primary and which is secondary.

Thanks, Tom!! It’s been a really long time since I had any formal electrical instruction or had to think about transformers in any kind of quantitative way, but I vaguely remember this.
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Re: Allin1DC Baldor 150VDC Servo Voltage Question

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There are plenty of inexpensive oscilloscopes on Amazon starting at $42. All you really need is a good Rms multimeter preferably with an ac+Dc clamp on ammeter. I got mine for around $35.
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