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Stepper and Servo Drives, Motors, Controls
News Release from: QuickSilver Controls | Subject: SilverDust IGC
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 28 May 2007
Servomotor controller allows I/O sharing
QuickSilver Controls' SilverDust IGC makes it easy and inexpensive to create a scalable, multi-axis network.
QuickSilver Controls' SilverDust IGC is its lowest cost CANopen servomotor controller This single-axis controller includes serial communications (RS-232, RS-485), CANopen and 7 I/O
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 24 Jan 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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CANopen can be configured for peer-to-peer, master or slave which allows the controllers to share I/O with other CANopen enabled SilverDust controllers or third party CANopen devices.
The RS-232/RS-485 serial network runs in parallel to CANopen for supervisory control from a host.
For a multi-axis system, users can connect several IGCs, making one the master and letting the others receive motion commands over CANopen.
If more I/O or Ethernet are needed the user can upgrade the master to one the more powerful controllers.
With the IGC it is easy and inexpensive to create a scalable, multi-axis network.
The IGC is designed to servo QuickSilver's NEMA 17 and NEMA 23 frame I-Grade servomotors and includes breakouts for power and communications.
The 7 bi-directional I/O can be broken out using one of the company's basic breakouts.
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