AMCI SMD34K, User Manual

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REFERENCE 4
H
OMING AN
SMD34K
Definition of Home Position
The Home Position is any position on your machine that you can sense and stop at. Once at the Home
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Position, the motor position register of an SMD34K must be set to an appropriate value. If you use the unit’s
CW/CCW Find Home commands, the motor position register will automatically be set to zero once the home
position is reached. The Encoder Position register will also be reset to zero if the encoder is available and
enabled.
Defining a Home Position is completely optional. Some applications, such as those that use a
Networked Driver for speed control, don’t require position data at all.
With the exception of Absolute Moves, an SMD34K can still perform all of its move commands if the Home
Position is not defined.
Position Preset
One of the ways to define the Home Position is to issue the Preset Position command over the network. On
units with integral encoders, both the motor position and the encoder position can be preset separately, and
the motor position can also be preset to the encoder position. The motor and encoder position values can be
preset anywhere in the range of –8,388,607 to +8,388,607.
When presetting the motor position to the encoder position, the programmed Steps per Turn
and Counts per Turn parameter values are used to scale the encoder position before the motor
position is set to it. For example, assume that the Encoder Counts per Turn is programmed to
2,048, and the Motor Steps per Turn is programmed to 2,000. If the encoder position is 2,048
when the preset command is issued, the motor position will be set to 2,000.
CW/CCW Find Home Commands
The other choice is to use the driver’s Find Home commands to command the SMD34K to find the Home
Position based on sensors brought into the unit. The CW Find Home command begins searching by rotating
the motor shaft in the clockwise direction and ends when the home sensor triggers while the SMD34K is
rotating in the clockwise direction
at the starting speed . The CCW Find Home command operates in the same
way but starts and ends with motion in the counter-clockwise direction.
This chapter explains the various ways of homing an SMD34K. Inputs used to
home the unit are introduced and diagrams that show how the unit responds to a
homing command are given.