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    For reasons that will soon become apparent I was searching for a milling machine spindle and came across this interesting item. BT30-ER20 tool holder, air powered draw bar for tool changing, HTD5 belt drive drive and ready to accept your choice of motor. Seemed too cheap to be true so naturally I had to buy one and find out . . .


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    Next part I'm looking into is a servo to drive the head of this planned DIY milling machine.

    Requirements are:
    Milling head is ~40kg
    Driven by 5mm ballscrews
    Running on 20mm linear rails
    Total head travel is about 350mm and I'd like to cover this in 5 seconds max under rapids
    Pulley ratio 3:1

    This AC servo seems OK:
    https://www.omc-stepperonline.com/a6...-rs750h2b1-m17
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    750W
    integrated brake
    2.39Nm torque, 8Nm peak
    Mains powered servo driver
    Accepts pulse step/direction (I'll be running it from an ESP32 microprocessor since it does lots of other things as well)

    I need to use this for drilling as well by moving the head down. My calculations show the axial force from the servo and ballscrew is 1607N peak, along with some of the mass of the head backdriving the ballscrew so this seems OK to me.

    Does anyone have any experience with these AC servos, and any comments on the above requirements?
    They also do an ethernet version (more money) but I don't know if I can interface to that from my microcontroller so am looking at the usual step/direction pulse control. I'll probably need electronic gearing too.

    Thanks
    Building a CNC machine to make a better one since 2010 . . .
    MK1 (1st photo), MK2, MK3, MK4

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