Baldor servo drive software

[kuffs]

Well, I have some good news for this 3 1/2 year old thread.

https://library.abb.com/r?dkg=dkg_so...aq&q=workbench

I just bought an original Baldor Flex Drive off of eBay (FD2A05TR-RN20). I found a manual hosted by an ABB/Baldor retailer https://drivecentre.ca/wp-content/up...ive-Manual.pdf. In the manual they refer to some software called Flex. It's OOOOLD software. I see references to getting it to run on Windows 3.1.

I'm not able to find this particular software anywhere. But while I am looking, I see other folks talking about configuring their Baldor drives.https://www.automation-talk.info/201...rive-auto.html . This guy talks about something called Workbench. It seems like Baldor's technology advanced and they named the configuration suite "Workbench". I'm not able to find anything called simply "Workbench" but the link above will take you to an ABB search that will allow you to download "Mint Workbench". Mint seems to be one of their newer series of drives with more advanced PLC-ish support.

I don't have my driver in hand yet. But I have installed Mint Workbench. The connection wizard doesn't mention "Flexdrive" by name. But it does mention "FlexdriveII". So I am hoping that the original drives are supported but not mentioned.

I'm not necessarily worried about being able to communicate with the drive. The manual for the drive lists all of the serial commands needed to configure it. Just get a usb to serial adapter for your computer and hook it up. I can type up configuration on a terminal with no problems. But the configuration software is supposed to have a bunch of auto-tune presets for configuring Baldor servos. I'd like to make sure my incoming drive is programmed to talk with my servo in the most efficient manner.