Brilliant. Your video was timely, my Maximat V10-P came with the same VFD with only basic functions, you’ve shown me how to take the controller to the next level. Thanks for sharing
Thrilled to find this video. I just got an Emco Maximat Super 11 last week and my VFD came in Monday. I was wondering the best way to wire up the two-speed motor. This video should be a huge help. I just need to figure out how to find and wire up the low-speed windings.
Sorry I missed your posts! The files are all here: groups.io/g/emcoV10lathe/files/VFD-on-120v-S11 If that still doesn't work for you send me an email and I'll send them over. patrick@arctician.com
Thanks for the video, I have a Super 11 running on an old DIY rotary 3 phase converter. Would love to switch over to a VFD. Your link to the documentation doesn't seem to work. Any place else I could find the files? Thanks
Aww phooey. I changed hosting and wound up with a typo in the new setup. (The U needed to be capitalized.) Should be good now. Sorry about that. If you have other questions, don't hesitate to ask!
Nice video, thanks. I have an Emco Compact 10 with a 380 Volt 3 phase motor. I would really know if this inverter suites my lathe and would welcome the PDF. I can't find it. Cheers
I put all the files on the Emco Group Files area and the link to the folder. The link works for me but maybe it doesn't work for everyone. So I also put the same info into one file and stuck on my web space and posted the link here. It's the you see above. (and here) arctician.com/4U/HuanyangVFDprogrammingAdventure-allFiles.pdf
I have a VFD on my Super11 3phase. I went the easy route and just connected the 3phase input directly to the VFD. I had two issues to overcome. #1 the contactors in the Super11 need at least a 30Hz input for them to operate thus you can't run the VFD up from 0. (no slow start) #2 the 1.5HP VFD will not start the lathe at 30HZ due to over-current protection. My plan is to do something similar to your setup and bypass the contactors and FW/RV switch on the lathe. Would like to see your PDF
Yeah, mine didn't have relays, just the barrel switch. It was still working but they all fail eventually. The VFD eliminates all that other stuff. No switches, relays, caps, etc. Power to inverter, to motor. Done. The inverters are sensitive about not being directly connected to the motor. Easily damaged if that connection is broken while working. I strongly encourage all to skip all original controls circuitry and go direct VFD to motor. Even if you do it on a temporary manner that allows going back to factory setup if need be. It's only three wires! My Emco switch box is emptied out. It just has the terminal strip and that's it for the lathe. The controls could have been as simple as a pot and a fwd/rev switch and wind up with same function as I have here. However, I laid out the controls wiring in the document too. Along with the programming of the Huanyang VFD. It took me some time to sort that part out. Hence the docs and video. Apologies for the scatteredness of what you see here. I'm still tied up in some major ordeals that have me preoccupied at the moment. Later on things will settle. I will settle. Cheers
Hey! that's a great win for the Emco. We both discovered the same thing -- the low speed (delta) windings work better. I tried both as well. I didn't 3d print a nice enclosure for the switch though!. I still use the gears to shift spindle speed range and keep the torque high for the particular speed. Here's my conversion: m.ruclips.net/video/CD44Hoawyyo/видео.html
Hey, nice video you did! Not so scatterbrained like mine here. Conversion sure makes a better machine doesn't it. One thing I didn't mention was I used a bit of RS232 cable to get from the controls on front to the electrical box. It fit through the rotary switch shaft holes. I may have wire tied it in a spot on the way through but it is in a good out of the way place and very safe. No holes drilled. Mounting the switch box I made picks up screw holes and bosses already on the headstock for the old switch knob mount and leaves you to drill one in the sheetmetal faceplate for a sheetmetal screw. Minimal butchery. Now that I've had this setup for years I can say I'd do it again like this. Not that there is anything wrong with just a direction switch and a speed knob. Both extremes of controls works just fine. Maybe someday when there is ice tea in hell I'll redo this video. Or maybe I'll just make more chips on some other project instead. cheers
@@pdofak I love the jog function! - Yeah the VFD really improves things - my wire bundle was a bit thick to easily route it through the path of the orignal rotary switch shaft..a bit kludgy but works. I'm with you on the "Just make more chips". Maybe someday i'll 3D-print a single, spiffy enclosure..or just make more chips :-)
Brilliant. Your video was timely, my Maximat V10-P came with the same VFD with only basic functions, you’ve shown me how to take the controller to the next level. Thanks for sharing
That is a very tidy looking lathe! looks like new unlike my V10. Lovely job
Thanks!
Great work. Thanks for the info. Are you running the milling attachment from the same vfd?
Thrilled to find this video. I just got an Emco Maximat Super 11 last week and my VFD came in Monday. I was wondering the best way to wire up the two-speed motor. This video should be a huge help. I just need to figure out how to find and wire up the low-speed windings.
Sorry I missed your posts!
The files are all here: groups.io/g/emcoV10lathe/files/VFD-on-120v-S11
If that still doesn't work for you send me an email and I'll send them over.
patrick@arctician.com
Hey, thanks for share this video. Deeply interesting. Would be nice to get the PDF (I was unable to find it) as I'm precisely in this step now.
Thanks for the video, I have a Super 11 running on an old DIY rotary 3 phase converter. Would love to switch over to a VFD. Your link to the documentation doesn't seem to work. Any place else I could find the files? Thanks
Aww phooey. I changed hosting and wound up with a typo in the new setup. (The U needed to be capitalized.) Should be good now. Sorry about that.
If you have other questions, don't hesitate to ask!
@@ArriGaffer Awesome! Thanks!
Hi, incredible work, I would like to install it on my emco, where I could get the pdf please?
Thanks in advance.
Nice video, thanks.
I have an Emco Compact 10 with a 380 Volt 3 phase motor. I would really know if this inverter suites my lathe and would welcome the PDF. I can't find it. Cheers
I put all the files on the Emco Group Files area and the link to the folder. The link works for me but maybe it doesn't work for everyone. So I also put the same info into one file and stuck on my web space and posted the link here. It's the you see above. (and here) arctician.com/4U/HuanyangVFDprogrammingAdventure-allFiles.pdf
I have a VFD on my Super11 3phase. I went the easy route and just connected the 3phase input directly to the VFD. I had two issues to overcome. #1 the contactors in the Super11 need at least a 30Hz input for them to operate thus you can't run the VFD up from 0. (no slow start) #2 the 1.5HP VFD will not start the lathe at 30HZ due to over-current protection. My plan is to do something similar to your setup and bypass the contactors and FW/RV switch on the lathe. Would like to see your PDF
Yeah, mine didn't have relays, just the barrel switch. It was still working but they all fail eventually. The VFD eliminates all that other stuff. No switches, relays, caps, etc. Power to inverter, to motor. Done. The inverters are sensitive about not being directly connected to the motor. Easily damaged if that connection is broken while working.
I strongly encourage all to skip all original controls circuitry and go direct VFD to motor. Even if you do it on a temporary manner that allows going back to factory setup if need be. It's only three wires!
My Emco switch box is emptied out. It just has the terminal strip and that's it for the lathe. The controls could have been as simple as a pot and a fwd/rev switch and wind up with same function as I have here. However, I laid out the controls wiring in the document too. Along with the programming of the Huanyang VFD. It took me some time to sort that part out. Hence the docs and video.
Apologies for the scatteredness of what you see here. I'm still tied up in some major ordeals that have me preoccupied at the moment. Later on things will settle. I will settle.
Cheers
Hey! that's a great win for the Emco. We both discovered the same thing -- the low speed (delta) windings work better. I tried both as well. I didn't 3d print a nice enclosure for the switch though!. I still use the gears to shift spindle speed range and keep the torque high for the particular speed. Here's my conversion: m.ruclips.net/video/CD44Hoawyyo/видео.html
Hey, nice video you did! Not so scatterbrained like mine here.
Conversion sure makes a better machine doesn't it.
One thing I didn't mention was I used a bit of RS232 cable to get from the controls on front to the electrical box. It fit through the rotary switch shaft holes. I may have wire tied it in a spot on the way through but it is in a good out of the way place and very safe. No holes drilled.
Mounting the switch box I made picks up screw holes and bosses already on the headstock for the old switch knob mount and leaves you to drill one in the sheetmetal faceplate for a sheetmetal screw. Minimal butchery.
Now that I've had this setup for years I can say I'd do it again like this. Not that there is anything wrong with just a direction switch and a speed knob. Both extremes of controls works just fine.
Maybe someday when there is ice tea in hell I'll redo this video. Or maybe I'll just make more chips on some other project instead.
cheers
@@pdofak I love the jog function! - Yeah the VFD really improves things - my wire bundle was a bit thick to easily route it through the path of the orignal rotary switch shaft..a bit kludgy but works. I'm with you on the "Just make more chips". Maybe someday i'll 3D-print a single, spiffy enclosure..or just make more chips :-)