Product category:
Stepper and Servo Drives, Motors, Controls
News Release from: Micromech | Subject: Omron XtraDrive family
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 11 October 2005
Drives promise the best of both worlds
The Omron XtraDrive family has been developed to incorporate the features and benefits of both steppers and servos and much more.
Available now from Micromech, the Omron XtraDrive family has been developed to incorporate the features and benefits of both steppers and servos and much more The drives have been designed to make machine upgrading easy, for the replacement of stepper motor axes, to convert mechanical gearing to programmable electronic gearing, and also to drive existing third party servomotors (with A quad B encoder feedback)
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 26 Feb 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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Drives feature operator handwheel feed rate control or timing synchronising for advance and retard inputs; they can replace mechanical cam systems with electronic cam profiles; and their dynamic performance is improved due to a patented new servo control algorithm ensuring low tracking error and zero overshoot.
They also have automatic tuning plus an oscillation cancellation algorithm therefore avoiding stress to sensitive machine elements.
The drives have Profibus DP, making them compatible with existing networks, and use XtraWare - a very low cost programming package which has clear with plain text command set for setting up parameters and evaluation of motion profiles.
The power range is from 100 to 800W for the 240V AC single-phase and 500W to 3.0kW at 400V AC three phase.
Ideal for new single axis or distributed multi-axis applications they can be machine mounted in small enclosures and there are standard cable kits for quick assembly and demount for maintenance.
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