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News Release from: Performance Motion Devices | Subject: Ion DC brush drive
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 09 January 2006
Modular DC brush drive is easy to apply
The fully enclosed, compact modular Ion DC brush drive is the second in PMD's new family of high performance drives.
The fully enclosed, compact modular Ion DC brush drive is the second in PMD's new family of high performance drives providing network connectivity, power amplification and other advanced features in a rugged, easy to use package Ion is available for DC brush, brushless DC and microstepping motors, and is ideal for medical, scientific, semiconductor, industrial, robotic and general automation applications
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 11 Apr 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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The Ion brushless DC drive is the first in a family of high-performance, network-connected motion control drives.
Based on PMD's Magellan motion processor, the Ion provides high-performance, low cost distributed motion control in an asynchronous serial network (RS485) version or a CANbus network version.
Multiple Ion modules (up to 127) can be connected on a single network.
Ion provides an output capability of up to 15A peak, and 500W at 56V.
Other features include hardware performance trace, on-the-fly profile changes, and PLC style inputs and outputs.
President and CEO, Chuck Lewin says: "The move toward distributed control has been driven by cost".
"A motion controller with separate amplifiers is substantially more expensive than multiple single-axis intelligent modules".
"The reduction in wiring in that sense actually comes for free, because it is absolutely not necessarily to justify the move to a serial network".
The Ion DC brush drive can be programmed using Pro-Motion, a Windows-based exerciser which allows quick and easy drive set up or C-Motion and VB-Motion software libraries which let users to develop their own applications in C/C++ or Visual Basic.
The Ion drive is CE marked and RoHS compliant.
Prices start at $223 in OEM quantities.
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