Does Avid offer the EX controller without the motors? My machine already has Clearpath SDSK motors that I would like to reuse.
Likely yes, you’d have to contact support to get a quote.
Your motors should work just fine. You’d want to get your HLFB setting just like ours if you want to work with the “DriveOK” signal in Centroid.
For homing we do hard stop homing, and we have that setup to go into that mode when the motors are enabled for the first time after power loss.
You could get one of our motor profiles and just look at the settings and make them match, and then run an auto tune (although I listed the two most important settings already)
TLDR is it will likely work, but might require you to do a few settings in MSP to get it all working.
Okay I will contact sales. for a quote.
I currently use auto homing with home switches. Can I use that instead of the clearpath hard stop homing?
I understand, it took some time tuning with my current setup. I ended up having Teknic log in and do adjust the tuning.
You can do either…
If you want to do hardstop homing (I recommend it, it’s very accurate) you’ll want to get some new end plates from us and some damping pistons.
If you do want to do prox switch homing you can do that too… You will need to make some adjustments to the homing script though.
Luckily you’ve got a bunch of options here:
Our software ships with homing scrips for Clearpath hardstop homing AND prox switch homing for steppers. The scripts are nearly the same, so you could alter them to work with the clearpaths to your liking.
Or, you could use Centroid’s stock homing scripts that are included as well.
Either way, there’s a way to make this work.
If it were me I’d go with hard stop homing. It’s simpler and very very accurate.
Okay, thank you for the help and info!
No problem!
I too already had some clearpath servos and purchased the EX controller. How can I get a copy of the profile that is mentioned in this thread. I want to check my auto tune settings to double check my work.
Unless you have identical motors (and I mean not the same series, the exact part number) the tune files aren’t going to load on your motors. Auto tune works great and will likely get you what you want.
You can’t easily “check” the auto tune settings against yours for that reason, also these are algorithms and just just a bunch of settings.