System philosophy
HARDWARE REFERENCE MANUAL
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Revision 5.0
2.2.3
EG control
Electronic Gearing control allows you to create a direct gearbox link or a
linked move between two axes. The MC Unit supports the following
operations.
•
Electronic gearbox
•
Linked CAM
•
Linked move
•
Adding axes
Electronic gearbox
fig. 10
The TJ2-MC__ is able to have a gearbox link from one axis to another as if
there is a physical gearbox connecting them. This can be done using the
CONNECT
command in the program. In the command the ratio and the axis
to link to are specified.
In the figure, A is the Master axis, and B is the
CONNECT
axis.
/i
A
B
2:1
1:1
1:2
Axes
Ratio
CONNECT command
0
1
1:1
CONNECT(1,0) AXIS(1)
2:1
CONNECT(0.5,0) AXIS(1)
1:2
CONNECT(2,0) AXIS(1)