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X-VSR Series User's Manual 

Vertical lift stages with built-in controllers 

               

 

Disclaimer 

Zaber’s devices are not intended for use in any critical medical, aviation, or military applications or 
situations where a product's use or failure could cause personal injury, death, or damage to 
property. Zaber disclaims any and all liability for injury or other damages resulting from the use of 
our products.   

Precautions 

Zaber’s motion control devices are precision instruments and must be handled with care. In 
particular, moving parts must be treated with care. Avoid axial loads in excess of the rated thrust 
load, axial and radial impact, dust and other contaminants and damage to the drive components. 
These will reduce the performance of the device below stated specifications.   

Conventions used throughout this document 

 

Fixed width

 type indicates communication to and from a device. The  symbol indicates a 

carriage return, which can be achieved by pressing enter when using a terminal program. 

 

An 

ASCII command

 followed by (T:xx) indicates a legacy T-Series 

Binary Protocol

 command 

that achieves the same result. For example,   

move abs 10000 (T:20:10000)

 shows that a move abs ASCII command can also be achieved 

with Binary command number 20. 
Not all ASCII commands have an equivalent Binary counterpart. 

Quick Tutorial 

Summary of Contents for X-VSR Series

Page 1: ...Avoid axial loads in excess of the rated thrust load axial and radial impact dust and other contaminants and damage to the drive components These will reduce the performance of the device below stated specifications Conventions used throughout this document Fixed width type indicates communication to and from a device The symbol indicates a carriage return which can be achieved by pressing enter w...

Page 2: ... one limit of travel Then they will move in both directions over full travel 4 Download and install Zaber Console Start Zaber Console 5 Select the communications port the first controller is connected to For instructions on how to find the available communication ports on your system please refer to Appendix A Available Communications Ports 6 If multiple devices are detected Zaber Console may prom...

Page 3: ...axis number implies all axes on the device or the device itself move vel 153600 T 22 153600 Move ALL devices and ALL axes in the positive direction at the speed 153600 A device address of 0 or no device address implies all devices in the chain Modifying Device Settings Here are some examples if you would like to customize particular device settings Refer to the Protocol Manual for detailed descrip...

Page 4: ...ector to AC Earth RS 232 Communications Pin Previous Next 1 Power Power 2 Ground Ground 3 Receive Transmit 4 Transmit Receive Default Settings Baud rate 115200 Protocol Zaber ASCII Specifications Supported Protocols Zaber ASCII Zaber Binary Supported baud rates 9600 19200 38400 57600 115200 Bits 8 Parity None Stop Bits 1 Flow Control None Indicators Green Power On Controller is operational Blinkin...

Page 5: ...USB ports then attach the device to the adaptor You may need to use a cable extension to reach your computer There is no need to power down or reboot the computer 2 Connect the power plug of your power supply to the power connector of the device The green LED should light up indicating the device has power 3 Additional devices can simply be daisy chained to the first See Daisy Chaining Devices bel...

Page 6: ...s with T Series and A Series devices Ensure all devices are set to the same communication protocol and baud rate before connecting them If any T Series devices will be in the chain then the communication protocol must be Binary at 9600 baud rate Connect any X Series devices at the start of the chain closest to the computer This configuration will reduce the number of adaptor cables required Connec...

Page 7: ...he knob moves the device a fixed number of microsteps specified by the knob distance T 110 setting If knob distance T 110 is set to 0 each detent of the knob will move to the next index position similar to move index T 78 movements The device moves at the speed specified by the maxspeed T 42 setting or the slower of maxspeed T 42 and limit approach maxspeed T 41 if the device has not been homed If...

Page 8: ...t home triggered T 53 103 setting Movement speed of the device is specified below move vel T 22 The device will move at the specified speed regardless of home status Knob movement in Velocity Mode The device will move at the specified speed regardless of home status The speed is specified by the knob speedprofile T 112 and knob maxspeed T 111 settings Other movement commands when the device has no...

Page 9: ... occurred Please contact Zaber Technical Support Yellow LED always off or flashes but no reply There are communication errors Please see the Communication Errors section below Blue LED blinking twice per second Device does not move Driver may be disabled due to over temperature out of range voltage or other driver fault or due to user request See Fx Warning Flags Once the issue has been resolved s...

Page 10: ...es not degrade plastics The device has repeatability errors smaller than 4 full steps If steps aren t being skipped friction or loose parts may still cause some variation when returning to a position Please contact Zaber Technical Support The device doesn t cover the full range of travel or runs into the end A setting might have been inadvertently changed home T 1 the device to see if this correct...

Page 11: ...e device does not move and does not reply Check baud rate hand shaking parity stop bit etc are set as per the RS 232 Communications defaults The device numbers may not be what is expected issue a renumber T 2 command Make sure that the computer does not transmit anything else while the devices renumber If using the Binary Protocol check the following 6 bytes are transmitted and that the device num...

Page 12: ... then it requires servicing Warranty and Repair For Zaber s policies on warranty and repair please refer to the Ordering Policies Standard products Standard products are any part numbers that do not contain the suffix ENG followed by a 4 digit number Most but not all standard products are listed for sale on our website All standard Zaber products are backed by a one month satisfaction guarantee If...

Page 13: ...Zaber Technologies Inc by any of the following methods Phone 1 604 569 3780 direct 1 888 276 8033 toll free in North America Fax 1 604 648 8033 Mail 2 605 West Kent Ave N Vancouver British Columbia Canada V6P 6T7 Web www zaber com Email Please visit our website for up to date email contact information The original instructions for this product are available at https www zaber com manuals X VSR App...

Page 14: ... is a 16550A 13 514432 usb 7 2 FTDI USB Serial Device converter now attached to ttyUSB0 o This shows that there are 3 serial ports available ttyS0 ttyS4 and ttyUSB0 a USB adaptor 2 Checking port permissions o Using the ports found above execute the following command ls l dev tty S0 S4 USB0 o The permissions given below show that a user has to be root or a member of the dialout group to be able to ...

Page 15: ...rminal and execute the following command ls dev cu serial o The response will be similar to the following dev cu usbserial FTB3QAET dev cu usbserial FTEJJ1YW o This shows that there are two serial ports available both of which happen to be USB adaptors o There may be other devices that match this query such as keyboards or some web cameras To determine which one corresponds to your USB serial cabl...

Page 16: ...aximum Speed 48 mm s 1 890 s Minimum Speed 0 000058 mm s 0 000002 s Speed Resolution 0 000058 mm s 0 000002 s Peak Thrust 200 N 44 9 lb Maximum Continuous Thrust 100 N 22 4 lb Communication Interface RS 232 Communication Protocol Zaber ASCII Default Zaber Binary Maximum Centered Load 100 N 22 4 lb Maximum Cantilever Load 300 N cm 424 8 oz in Pitch 0 08 1 396 mrad Roll 0 08 1 396 mrad ...

Page 17: ...nsing Magnetic home sensor Manual Control Yes Axes of Motion 1 Mounting Interface M6 and M3 threaded holes Operating Temperature Range 0 50 C Vacuum Compatible No RoHS Compliant Yes CE Compliant Yes Comparison Part Number Travel Range Accuracy unidirectional Loaded Accuracy 10 N Backlash X VSR20A 20 mm 0 787 50 µm 0 001968 35 µm 0 001378 35 µm 0 001378 X VSR40A 40 mm 1 575 35 µm 0 001378 20 µm 0 0...

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Page 19: ...WARE This product uses the LZ4 compression library LZ4 is 2011 2016 Yann Collet and is governed by the following license All rights reserved Redistribution and use in source and binary forms with or without modification are permitted provided that the following conditions are met Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice this list of conditions and the following disclai...

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