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Stepper and Servo Drives, Motors, Controls
News Release from: API Portsecap | Subject: Technosoft intelligent servo drives
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 31 January 2002
PLC capabilities on intelligent servo
drives
A new range of intelligent digital servo drives offer not only a comprehensive range of motion control functions, but also programmable logic controller facilities
Ideal for use in modern distributed control systems, the new range of intelligent digital servo drives from Portescap offer not only a comprehensive and versatile range of motion control functions, but also programmable logic controller (PLC) facilities This means that, in many applications, the added complication and expense of using a separate PLC to provide local control is no longer necessary
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 2 Feb 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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Portescap is currently offering Technosoft intelligent servo drives in four models, with power ratings from 100W to 640W.
This range is complemented by an intelligent stepper motor drive which offers a similarly comprehensive range of functions, and has a rating of 3A at 48V DC.
Features offered by the intelligent servo drives include torque, speed and position control; electronic gearing, profiling and contouring; and stepper motor emulation.
The units can also be precisely tuned to match a wide range of motor types.
The stepper motor drive offers a choice of open-loop or closed-loop operation with full support for microstep operation in either mode, and current vector control in closed-loop mode for stepless operation.
All of the drives feature an embedded version of a motion language which supports single-axis, multi-axis and standalone operating modes, and which offers a high-level instruction set for the definition and execution of speed or position commands, and of pre-stored motion sequences.
The system is fully compatible with Technosoft's powerful and versatile Motion Studio, a set of PC-based graphical tools which aid rapid configuration, tuning, and motion programming.
Portescap intelligent drives from Portescap are supplied as compact modules, except for the 100W servo-drive which is a plug-in printed circuit card.
All versions offer programmable digital and analogue inputs which can be used to implement control functions, and all have RS232/ RS485 communication facilities to allow easy integration in distributed control applications.
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