CANopen Option for the Applied Motion’s STAC6 Step Motor Drive
September 15, 2009 by Motion Control Tips Editor
Filed under Drives, Motors, Stepper Drives, Stepper Motors
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.
Applied Motion Products
www.applied-motion.com
Applied Motion Products adds CANopen option to SV Servo Motor Drives
July 10, 2009 by Motion Control Tips Editor
Filed under Drives, Motors, Servo Drives, Servo Motors
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
Applied Motion Products
www.applied-motion.com
maxon motor Launches New CANopen Positioning Module
March 31, 2009 by Motion Control Tips Editor
Filed under Controllers
As an addition to the digital positioning controllers of the EPOS family, maxon motor now presents an OEM version. The miniaturized EPOS2 Module 36/2 is designed to control brush DC motors as well as brushless EC motors. This plug-in module offers full motion control functionalities and suits single-axis and multiple-axis applications of miniature size. The EPOS2 Module 36/2 is the perfect drive solution for equipment designers.
This plug-in module integrates seamlessly into customer applications. One major advantage of the position controller is its outstanding flexibility. It can be operated in various operational modes; as position controller, but also as speed controller or as current controller. This characteristic permits the use of the module in a vast range of drive systems. Thus, the EPOS2 Module 36/2 can be applied wherever decentralized drive management is needed. With its size of only 54×28x9 mm, performance characteristics of 36 Volt max and 2 Amp, the module is especially suitable as an OEM component in miniature apparatus manufacturing.
As with all products of the EPOS series, this module has also been developed to command and control within a CANopen network. It also can communicate via USB or RS232 interface. Additionally, step motors can be substituted by employing the featured “Step/Direction Mode” and the “Master Encoder Mode” transforms the drive into an electronic gearbox. Control via an analogue set value voltage can replace conventional servo amplifier setups.
CANopen Servo Motor Controller
March 5, 2009 by Motion Control Tips Editor
Filed under Controllers
QuickSilver Controls, Inc. introduces a low cost CiA DSP 402 CANopen servo motor controller. The SilverDust IGK is a stand alone, single axis controller that includes serial communications (RS-232, RS-485), CANopen and 7 I/O. CANopen can be configured for peer-to-peer, master or slave which allows the controllers to share I/O with other CANopen controllers and 3rd party CANopen devices (i.e. I/O blocks, encoders,…).
CiA DSP 402 refers to CAN in Automation (CiA) Draft Standard Proposal (DSP) 402 CANopen Drives and Motion Control Device Profile. This profile defines such functions as start-up and homing techniques as well as motion profiles. A host controller, for example a PLC, supporting CiA DSP 402 could command multiple CiA DSP 402 motor controllers from multiple vendors. CiA DSP 402 runs on top of CANopen (CiA DSP 302 v4.0).
The RS-232/RS-485 serial network runs in parallel to CANopen for supervisory control from a host (i.e. PC, PLC, HMI..).
The IGK is designed to servo QuickSilver’s NEMA 17 and NEMA 23 frame I-Grade servo motors. 7 bi-directional I/O can be broken out using one of our QCI’s basic breakouts (QCI-BO-B, QCI-BO-B1, QCI-BO-B1A) or, if 24V I/O is needed, using the QCI-BO-B52.
CANopen Module for Integrated AC Servo Motors
January 28, 2009 by Motion Control Tips Editor
Filed under Motors, Servo Motors
JVL Industri Elektronik A/S, a Danish company, now represented in Ohio, USA, announces a new expansion, CANopen, module for their MAC, Integrated AC Servo motors. The CAN module offers control and setup, logic I/O for high speed start/stop, CANbus/CANopen DS 301 and CANopen DSP 402 and DeviceNet under development.
The module can be delivered with integrated cable with watertight connections for use in harsh environments or be delivered with M12 connectors. The modular built-up of the JVL Integrated MAC motors makes them extremely versatile for very many applications.
The MAC motor is an AC servo motor and controller combined in a single unit, offering previously unseen low pricing for the OEM market. Integrating electronics in a motor has been achieved previously, but never in such a compact unit with true AC servo performance. In the MAC motor, the servo motor, hall sensors, encoder and control circuitry have been especially designed by JVL to provide a self-contained, integrated unit in which the driver and controller are mounted behind the motor in a sealed housing.
System intelligence is thereby decentralized by off-loading control functions to the device level. This makes the MAC motor well suited for distributed control architectures which are prevalent in factory automation processes today.
The MAC motor is available in 5 models: 50, 95 ,140W and 400 and 750W. Motor parameters are set-up via an RS232 port using Windows software MacTalk.
http://www.jvlusa.com
QuickSilver OEM Servo Motor Controller with CANopen
November 3, 2008 by Motion Control Tips Editor
Filed under Controllers
QuickSilver has added a CANopen option to its OEM servo motor controller. CANopen may be configured for peer-to-peer, master or slave. This allows the controllers to share I/O and registers with other CANopen enabled SilverDust™ controllers or 3rd party CANopen devices (i.e. I/O blocks, encoders, PLCs…). For a multiaxis system, connect several IG-Js, make one the master and let the others receive motion commands over CANopen.
The IG-J1 supports the CAN in Automation (CiA) CANopen Drives and Motion Control Profile 402 which allows master CANopen devices, such as PLCs, to communicate using a standard set of motion commands.
This servo controller is designed to drive QuickSilver’s line of I-Grade NEMA 17, 23 and some 34 frame motors generating from 21 oz-in (0.15Nm) to 300 oz-in (2.1Nm) continuous torque. It also includes serial communications (RS-232, RS-485), and 7 I/O. The RS-232/RS-485 serial network runs in parallel with CAN for supervisory control from a host (i.e. PC, PLC, HMI..).
The 7 bi-directional I/O, 12V-48V input power, and communications signals are accessed through the DB15HD port and can be converted to terminal strips using one of the popular breakouts (QCI-BO-B, QCI-BO-B1, QCI-BO-B1A, or QCI-BO-B52).
