STR Step Motor Drives from Applied Motion Products

WATSONVILLE, CA – Applied Motion Products introduces the STR, a new drive engineered to deliver the features expected by today’s machine builders, at a price they need. The STR step motor drives, available in 4 amp and 8 amp versions, are DC input drives requiring a step and direction control signal. They feature Anti-resonance, Microstep Emulation and Idle Current Reduction.

Configuration is done entirely with switches on the drive. AMP engineers optimized the performance for a number of motors, storing all the configuration parameters on the drive. The motor is then selected by a 16 position rotary switch. Custom configurations are welcomed for OEMs wishing to use a different motor. The STR is compact, measuring only 4.64” x 2.97” x 1.29”.

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CANopen Option for the Applied Motion’s STAC6 Step Motor Drive

WATSONVILLE, CA – Applied Motion Products announces the CANopen option for the STAC6 Step Motor Drive, building on its increasing range of fieldbus compatible drives. The STAC6 Step Motor Drive has proven itself in demanding applications, such as packaging and labeling machines, delivering up to up to 1400 oz-in with AMPs compatible range of low-loss, high performance step motors.

STAC6 drives are rated at 6A for the 110V version and 3.2A with the 220VAC version. Adding CANopen allows the drives to be controlled by a CANopen master utilizing the DS301 and DSP402 communications protocols and the CAN 2.0b Passive physical layer. STAC6 drives have 7 digital inputs, 3 digital outputs and 2 analog inputs, encoder feedback is standard.

All AMPs CANopen compatible drives include Q programmer, Applied Motions powerful motion control language. Q programs can be downloaded and stored on the drive and then using the CANopen network, users can access, modify and trigger Q programs. Free printed literature and a price quote are available to aid product selection efforts. Full product CAD drawings are also available.

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Applied Motion Products adds CANopen option to SV Servo Motor Drives

WATSONVILLE, CA – Applied Motion Products announces an increase in the range of CANopen products by the addition of CANopen communications to the SV series Step Motor Drives.

Adding a CANopen option to the SV series Servo Drives adds a third drive to Applied Motions list of CANopen compatible products, with more to come.

The SV drive develops 7A continuous and 14A peak and has eight digital inputs, four digital outputs and two analog inputs.

SV CANopen drives have Applied Motion’s Q programming language on board. This has the added advantage that Q programs written and stored in the drive and then a command can be sent over the CANopen network to trigger the program. The user can also read and write to registers over the CAN Network changing parameters within the stored Q program.

More information can be found at www.applied-motion.com/SV

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Applied Motion Adds CANopen Option to ST Step Motor Drives

WATSONVILLE, CA – Applied Motion Products announces the addition of CANopen communications to the ST series Step Motor Drives.

The addition of a CANopen option card to the range of communication options allows the drives to be controlled by a CANopen master utilizing the DS301 and DSP402 communications protocols and the CAN 2.0b Passive physical layer. Using these standard protocols the drive can be commanded to execute point to point moves, homing routines or run at a set velocity. ST CANopen Drives are available in 5A and 10A versions. Each has eight digital inputs, four digital outputs and two analog inputs. ST drives are configured using ST Configurator software.

CANopen is utilized by OEM machine builders to integrate many devices of different types on a single field bus connection. Drives such as the ST can be put on the same network as sensors and interfaces. The user then has a single learning curve to develop programs that can communicate to all compatible devices. Up to 132 devices can be connected on a single CANopen Network.

Free printed literature and a price quote are available to aid product selection efforts. Full product CAD drawings are also available.

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