10-4, Tom.
Much appreciated. Gonna try to continue progress today. The ice has the roads shut down. Great day for electronics.
Super excited to get things moving.
Thank you, Thank you!
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- Tue Jan 27, 2026 2:32 pm
- Forum: Configuration Issues
- Topic: Initial Tuning DC Servos Fadal + Glentek + Kanalog
- Replies: 5
- Views: 129
- Tue Jan 27, 2026 2:46 am
- Forum: Configuration Issues
- Topic: Initial Tuning DC Servos Fadal + Glentek + Kanalog
- Replies: 5
- Views: 129
Re: Initial Tuning DC Servos Fadal + Glentek + Kanalog
Thanks for the response Tom. We swapped the pos/neg wires on the drive for the main DC and then things began to behave better. I swapped them back to original position now and changed the gain to neg 1 and that has the same result as swapping motor leads. Thanks for the direction on how to do that. ...
- Tue Jan 27, 2026 1:16 am
- Forum: Configuration Issues
- Topic: Initial Tuning DC Servos Fadal + Glentek + Kanalog
- Replies: 5
- Views: 129
Initial Tuning DC Servos Fadal + Glentek + Kanalog
Hello All, Tom has been more than helpful and generous. I bought the Kanalog setup inspired by Mark's Fadal retrofit. I have the same or very similar machine and hope to get it back to life. My machine has the old Glen Tek drives and they worked before trying to retrofit. The control had other issue...
- Sun Aug 07, 2022 8:26 pm
- Forum: Tuning Servos
- Topic: Fadal Overhaul
- Replies: 2
- Views: 25144
Fadal Overhaul
Howdy Y'all. I'm very excited to get this 92 Fadal VMC 40 back on its feet again. I have been eyeing and considering for a while and finally took the plunge and gutted a bunch. I also mounted a new touch screen and a windows PC. So far I have gotten to the point of testing the first motor and drive....