Micro-sized Plug-in Servo Drive Modules
by Miles Budimir, Senior Editor
Friday, August 07, 2009
Greenville, DE — Servo2Go.com has added new additions to it’s broad range of highly responsive analog and feature rich digital servo drives from Advanced Motion Controls. The 'Z' drives are µ-sized servo drives requiring less space than a standard business card and weigh about the same as two golf balls.
The 'Z' drives are capable of torque, velocity and position operating modes for brushed, brushless or voice coil motors. Inputs include: ±10V analog, PWM, Step/Direction, Encoder Following, RS-485/232 and CANopen network interfacing and much more.
Some models are dedicated to operate in either torque or velocity modes only, for brushed or brushless motors only, and from certain command inputs only. The strategy is to reduce overall system costs by establishing a minimal feature set to fulfill the needs. However, these same units have extremely high current loop bandwidth for response time critical / challenging applications. Other models are fully configurable by the user to select torque, velocity and position modes as needed. These versions come complete with programmable I/O, flexible motor selection, ease of loop tuning, optional networking (CANopen, RS-485, etc.). Complete configuration and diagnostics through setup software is inclusive.
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