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Application Guide

for Pulse and Direction Stepper

Systems

Including the integration of

Glentek digital pulse-stepper servos

with Sound Logic Breakout boards

and Artsoft Mach series software

Applications Guide

Revision Date:

03 Nov 2008

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Summary of Contents for Glentek Amplifier

Page 1: ...e for Pulse and Direction Stepper Systems Including the integration of Glentek digital pulse stepper servos with Sound Logic Breakout boards and Artsoft Mach series software Applications Guide Revision Date 03 Nov 2008 ...

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Page 3: ...ents 3 Overview 4 Servo Motor Versus Stepper Motor 5 Selecting a Glentek Servo Motor to Replace a Stepper Motor 7 How to Choose the Correct Amplifier 8 Sound Logic Breakout Board 9 Artsoft Controls Software 10 Advantages of Using Glentek Microstepping Servo Amplifiers 11 Brushless Versus Brush type Comparison 12 ...

Page 4: ...ition Loop stepper servos The guide also explains how to choose the correct servo motor replacement for a stepper mo tor The guide describes how to set up the Glentek Position Loop Stepper servo amplifier and connect it to the Sound Logic breakout board Also we have included a brushless vs brush type comparison for those of you that are currently using brush type motor in your servo sys tem For ad...

Page 5: ...s number is then compared with the number that it was commanded to move The dif ference then becomes an error signal to a high gain high bandwidth digital servo loop within the servo amplifier The error is always nulled to zero in steady state conditions For this reason you see the digital step servo never loses steps or position as a step motor can if it is inadvertently stalled and misses a step...

Page 6: ...currently being updated to operate with the USB port of a standard computer and this will allow higher data transfer rates Glentek servo motors and servo amplifiers provide the highest quality and reliability as well as being reasonably priced 400 in 1 rev 20 000 pulses 1 min X X X 666 7 KHz min 0 2 in 1 rev 60 sec Note When operating in the pulse and direction stepper mode make sure to disable in...

Page 7: ...of a servo motor you should start out by selecting a servo motor approximately the same weight as the stepper motor As a final system test after selecting the Glentek servo motor replacement for your stepper motor Glentek strongly recommends you to install the servo motor and exercise your machine at maximum axis duty cycle to make sure that the servo motor runs without over heating and the follow...

Page 8: ...ormation on Glentek amplifiers refer to installation and operation manual 24AUG07 at the Glentek website The SMB amplifier has buss derived logic power which means that you only need to provide buss power to the amplifier to operate the digital logic board However in case of buss power removal or failure the digital logic board would not be able to keep track of the position of the motor shaft and...

Page 9: ...signals to the amplifier The board connects directly to the parallel printer port on a standard computer In the future the breakout board will be able to be controlled by the standard USB port as well as the parallel printer port The USB port will allow higher frequency bandwidth pulse and direction signals to be ported out to the microstepping servo drives The board that was tested at Glentek is ...

Page 10: ...C community This software is complex for the novice user How ever Artsoft has many forums where help can be found and Artsoft also offers phone technical service Artsoft also has the ability to use their Mach software as a basis and create a program that is used specifically for an application This software offers many command functions for the CNC machining process The software is able to control...

Page 11: ... soft start circuitry and a regenerative volt age clamp with dumping shunt resistor 6 RS232 high speed 115 2K baud serial communication interface for set up and tuning 7 Software configurable Glentek s Windows based MotionMaestro software provides ease of set up and tuning with no previous programming experience required 8 Dedicated digital inputs Fault limits motor over temperature and reset 9 Fa...

Page 12: ...imally oriented with respect to the magnetic field which in turn produces maximum torque In a brushless motor there is no commutator to direct the current flow through the windings Instead an encoder hall sensors or a resolver on the motor shaft senses the rotor position and thus the mag net orientation The position data is fed to the amplifier which in turn commutates the motor electroni cally by...

Page 13: ...Glentek Inc 208 Standard Street El Segundo California 90245 U S A 310 322 3026 13 ...

Page 14: ...ers to 28KW Analog Brushless Servo Amplifiers Linear Brushless servo amplifiers to 3 5KW PWM Pulse Width Modulated Brushless servo amplifiers to 51KW Permanent Magnet DC Brush Type Servo Motors Continuous Torques to 335 in lb Peak Torques to 2100 in lb Permanent Magnet DC Brushless Servo Motors Continuous Torques to 1100 in lb Peak Torques to 2200 in lb 208 Standard Street El Segundo California 90...

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