Product category:
Motors and Variable speed drives
News Release from: Micromech | Subject: P7000
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 10 February 2004
Micro-stepping drive has 'servo like'
performance
The P7000 from Danaher Motion has open loop stall detection and so combines all the advantages of a stepper system but can perform like a servo drive arrangement
Introducing the P7000 micro-stepping drive that gives 'servo like' performance without a feedback device! The P7000 from Danaher Motion has open loop stall detection and so combines all the advantages of a stepper system but can perform like a servo drive arrangement The dynamic smoothing (Multi-Stepping) also provides a much smoother motion when using low-resolution step configuration such as full and half step which is most helpful when command pulse frequency is limited
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 28 Sep 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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The P7000 stepper drive upgrade has more features
The new features of the P7000 drive include motor stall detection w/o feedback, auto-smoothing coarse steps to micro-steps, motor wave shape tuning for ultra smooth low speed operation, and more
There is improved mid-band anti-resonance that de-emphasises the motor's natural resonance so reducing vibration and the risk of stalling.
It has a simple to use software set up using PC or dip-Switch set up for standard motor types and a choice of base step and direction drive or indexing option, this means a PC will not always be required on site.
It also has a choice of DC powered drive (5A rms) or AC powered drive (3A rms per phase) and you can also choose between a network control 'Motion Node' ( Mod Bus RTU), Device Net or CANopen.
As for set up, position programming and testing the P7000 uses the popular PC Graphical User Interface (GUI) which is a significant advantage as it allows applications to be verified on the bench using a PC.
Very competitively priced and it comes in a compact housing: DC unit P70530 is H144, W 44.3 and D112.5mm; AC unit P70360 is H170, W 52.3 and D132mm.
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