5.16 Electronic Gear Settings
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5.16
Electronic Gear Settings
The minimum unit of the position data that is used to move a load is called the reference unit.
The reference unit is used to give travel amounts, not in pulses, but rather in distances or other
physical units (such as
μ
m or
°
) that are easier to understand.
The electronic gear is used to convert the travel distances that are specified in reference units
to pulses, which are required for actual movements.
With the electronic gear, one reference unit is equal to the workpiece travel distance per refer-
ence pulse input to the SERVOPACK. In other words, if you use the SERVOPACK’s electronic
gear, pulses can be read as reference units.
Note: 1. If you set an electronic gear in the host controller, normally set the electronic gear ratio in the SERVOPACK
to 1:1.
2. If you enable reference pulse input multiplication switching, the reference unit is defined as the position
data that is n times the reference pulses input from the host controller. (“n” is the reference pulse input mul-
tiplier.)
The difference between using and not using the electronic gear is shown below.
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Rotary Servomotors
In this example, the following machine configuration is used to move the workpiece 10 mm.
Workpiece
Re
s
olution:
16,777,216 (24 bit
s
)
Ball
s
crew lead: 6 mm
When the Electronic Gear I
s
Not U
s
ed
When the Electronic Gear I
s
U
s
ed
To move a workpiece 10 mm:
Calculate the number of revolutions.
The motor will move 6 mm for each revolution,
so 10/6 revolutions are required to move 10
mm.
Calculate the required number of reference
pulses.
One revolution is 16,777,216 pulses, therefore
10/6 × 16,777,216 = 27,962,026.66 pulses.
Input 27,962,027 pulses as the reference.
If you use reference units to
move the workpiece when one
reference unit is set to 1
μ
m,
the travel distance is 1
μ
m per
pulse.
To move the workpiece 10 mm
(10,000
μ
m), 10,000
÷
1 =
10,000 pulses, so 10,000
pulses would be input.
Calculating the number of reference pulses for each
reference is troublesome.
Calculating the number of ref-
erence pulses for each refer-
ence is not necessary.
