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REFERENCE 4
H
OMING
THE
SD4840EK
Definition of Home Position
The Home Position is any position on your machine that you can sense and stop at. Once at the Home Position,
the motor position register of the SD4840EK must be set to an appropriate value. If you use the module’s
CW/
CCW Find Home
commands, the motor position register will be set to zero once the home position is reached.
The Encoder Position register will also be reset to zero if the quadrature encoder is enabled for the axis.
Defining a Home Position is completely optional. Some applications, such as those that use a
stepper for speed control, don’t require position data at all.
With the exception of Absolute Moves, the SD4840EK can still perform all of its move commands if the
Home Position is not defined.
Position Preset
One of the ways to define the Home Position is to issue the Preset Position command to the SD4840EK.
Before doing this, you will need a way of sensing position outside the SD4840EK module. The machine posi-
tion data must be brought into the host, the correct preset value calculated, and this value written to the
SD4840EK axis with the Position Preset command. The motor and encoder position values can be preset any-
where in the range of -8,388,608 to +8,388,607.
CW/CCW Find Home Commands
The other choice is to use the module’s Find Home commands to order the SD4840EK to find the Home Posi-
tion based on sensors brought into the unit. The CW Find Home command begins searching by rotating the
motor shaft in the clockwise direction, (when the motor is wired as shown in this manual), and ends when the
home sensor triggers while the SD4840EK is rotating the motor in a clockwise direction at a low rate. The
CCW Find Home command operates in the same way but starts and ends with CCW rotation.
Homing Inputs
Five inputs can be used when homing the module. These inputs are either physical inputs attached to the mod-
ule or bits in the PLC output data words.
Physical Inputs
Home Input:
This input is used in one of two ways: 1) This input is used to define the actual home
position of the machine. 2) The input is used as a home proximity input when using the encoder marker
pulse to home the machine.
Encoder Marker (Z) Pulse:
If you configure the SD4840EK to use an encoder, you have the option of
using the encoder’s marker pulse to home the machine.
CW Limit Switch Input:
This input is used to prevent overtravel in the clockwise direction.
CCW Limit Switch Input:
This input is used to prevent overtravel in the counter-clockwise direction.
Backplane Inputs
Backplane_Home_Proximity Bit:
The SD4840EK can be configured to ignore changes on the physical
homing input until the Backplane_Home_Proximity Bit makes a 0
1 transition. The SD4840EK will
home on the next inactive-to-active change on the physical input once this transition occurs. You must
program your host to control the state of this bit. Do not use the Backplane_Home_Proximity bit if you
only want to home to the Home Limit Switch.
This chapter explains the various ways of homing an axis on the SD4840EK.
Inputs used to home the module are introduced and diagrams that show how the
module responds to a homing command are given.
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