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EPOS Positioning Controller
EPOS 24/5 Getting Started
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Introduction
This documentation ‘Getting Started’ provides the first steps in using EPOS positioning controller. It
describes the standard procedure when the device is put into operation. The document facilitates the
installation and configuration of a basic EPOS 24/5 system.
maxon motor EPOS 24/5 is a small-sized full digital smart motion
controller. Due to the flexible and high efficient power stage the
EPOS 24/5 drives brushed DC motors with digital encoder as well as
brushless EC motors with digital Hall sensors and encoder.
The sinusoidal current commutation by space vector control offers to
drive brushless EC motors with minimal torque ripple and low noise.
The integrated position-, velocity- and current control functionality
allows sophisticated positioning applications. It is specially designed
being commanded and controlled as a slave node in the CANopen
network. In addition the unit can be operated through any RS-232 communication port.
Figure 1: EPOS 24/5 photo
The latest edition of these ‘Getting Started’, additional documentation and software to the EPOS
positioning controller may also be found in the internet under
category
<Service & Downloads>.
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How to use this guide
Setup
Getting Started
Installation Configuration
Programming Application
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Cable Starting Set
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Hardware
Reference
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Graphical User
Interface
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Windows DLL
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IEC1131 libraries
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Firmware
Specification
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Communication
Guide
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Application Notes
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Application
Samples
Figure 2: EPOS documentation hierarchy
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December 2008 Edition / document number 573050-07 / subject to change
