Polling the Motor
Polling the Motor
To view the current state of the status bits, you must poll the motor.
1. Double-click the motor icon to open the Motor View window (see the following figure).
2. Click the Poll button to begin polling data from the motor.
Motor View with Active Overtravel Limits
A SmartMotor with no program and no I/O connections will boot up with active overtravel limits (see
the red status bits numbered 10 through 15 in the previous figure).
The EIGN() command is used to clear these status bits as described in the next section. EIGN stands
for: Enable Inputs as General Use. In the case of EIGN(W,0), the W means a "word" or 16 bits of I/O;
the 0 means first word or local I/O. There are only seven local I/O on the D-style motors. Therefore,
EIGN(W,0) sets all seven I/O to general-use inputs.
Moog Animatics Class 5 SmartMotor™
Installation and Startup Guide,
Rev. I
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