Baldor servo drive software

[joeindanger]

For future people, contact ABB themselves they have a copy of this software. If you're a personal user they might charge you so beware. Because it was designed around windows95, you will need some sort of emulator or virtual machine to get this to work (unless you've got a computer running win95). I recommend DosBox. You can look up it in more detail so hope this helps. Note: there are two types of software, one for the flex drive and flex plus so make sure you use the right one. Also, make sure you use the right cable because it will give you a headache just trying to connect to the thing

[kuffs]

I've been using the Flex software for the Auto Tune functionality. And also because it contains a full list of Baldor motors and their specific configuration parameters. But I have found the software to be kind of finnicky sometimes. I'm not sure if it's a fault somewhere in the emulation stack, or if it's just buggy software in general. But I've been observing the auto-tune process and cross-referencing it against the serial command reference. One could totally implement that process in something like a python script. I am not sure what sort of algorithm they're using to process the results of a pass. But I bet I could find someone who knows.

I don't think I need to go through all that in order to get good performance for a spindle motor. I don't need the kind of fine balance between smooth motion and speed that a robot needs. But I may attempt my own auto-tune software if things don't work out the way I want.

[Dedend]

Kuffs,
I have old Flex software on an old laptop. It very basic and the the drive connects. My problem is I had a motor bearing fail and got the exact motor new. Put it on and I get fault codes? cleared the fault codes Zero and one tries to move them faults. I noticed that who ever set up the drives last time had a a 50A-233 in the description they try to zero but fault. I changed to motor setup to 50N-233 like the name plate now they hold position and won't move at all. Did I erase something. I'm pretty sure they are just slaves to the PC/desktop that runs the program with a I/O card.