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Appendix A
Rear Panel Connector Pinout Details
A.1
Rear Panel CONTROL IO Connector
The ‘CONTROL I/O’ is a 15-Pin D-Type, Female connector that exposes a number of
electrical signals useful for external control. It is possible to configure a particular
controller to respond to trigger inputs, generate trigger outputs or both respond to and
generate a trigger output - see Section 5.3.3. Motor jogging lines can be used to jog
the motor in bo th forward and reverse directions from a remote han dset (Jogging
parameters (e.g. jog distance) are set via the GUI panel - see Section 5.3.1.).
The pin functions are detailed in Fig. A.1.
Fig. A.1 MOTOR I/O connector pin identification
Pin
Description
Return
Pin
Description
Return
1
User 5V I/O
9
9
User 0V
–
2
* Jog forwards
9
10
* Jog backwards
9
3
Not Used
9
11
** Analog In
9
4
Tigger In
†
–
12
Trigger Out
9
5
User 0V
–
13
Not Used
–
6
RS232 TX
–
14
RS232 RX
6
7
Digital (User) In
†
–
15
Digital (User) Out
9
8
Keyed Pin
–
Notes
*
Jog inputs must be short circuit to User 0V (pin 9) in order to function.
** Analog In is 0 to 5V wrt 0V (pin 9). The input can be read by calling the
LLGetADCInputs method in the APT software - see the
APTServer helpfile
for
more details.
†
The OFF voltage range is 0 to 0.4V, the ON voltage range is 4.5 to 5V.
Voltage greater than 5.5V will damage the input.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
