Product category:
Stepper and Servo Drives, Motors, Controls
News Release from: Micromech | Subject: Trio MC302-K
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 19 February 2004
Motion controller hitches a lift on
Servostar
Trio has produced a novel motion co-ordinator that fits within a Danaher Servostar digital drive to provide an easy-to-use 1.5-axis motion controller with sophisticated features.
Trio has produced a novel motion co-ordinator that fits within a Danaher Servostar digital drive to provide an easy-to-use 1.5-axis motion controller with sophisticated features The MC302-K module simply clips into the S600 or S300 option slot and is powered by the drive
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 26 Feb 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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Based on Trio's latest high-performance 32bit ARM technology, the MC302-K offers 64MHz performance in a compact package.
Its user programs are written in the established multitasking Basic language using the powerful Motion Perfect development software.
Storage is accomplished in the 120Kbyte user program memory.
Complex motion such as cams, gears, linked axes, and interpolation is made easy with the comprehensive Basic command set and additional Basic commands make it easy to setup and control the drive features and parameters.
The MC302-K has 12 optoisolated digital inputs and eight optoisolated digital outputs built-in.
In addition users can directly access the digital and analogue I/O provided by the drive.
A wide communications capability is available with a CAN interface for DeviceNet and an RS232 port for HMI with Modbus RTU support.
Additional I/O can be provided using the CAN 8 analogue input and CAN 16 digital I/O modules.
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