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System Description
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System Description
3.1
Control of Multiple Axes
C-863 and C-862 Mercury™ controllers can be networked with each other or with
C-663 Mercury™ Step stepper motor controllers.
Up to 16 controllers can be connected to one RS-232 or USB port. The controllers
interconnect with an RS-232 bus architecture.
Each controller on the network
must be set to a unique address. With the C-863, the controller address is set in
the first four DIP switches on the front panel (see p. 23).
The networking feature does not support simultaneous ASCII communication with
the various controllers, but simultaneous motion of the connected axes, servo-
control and/or macro execution is possible.
The GCS and native command sets present different communications models at
the user interface. See the respective Commands manual for details. With current
firmware, the hardware model is that of the native command set—i.e. the GCS
commands are translated to commands in the native command set and the proper
controllers are selected using the native addressing mechanism with its address
selection codes.
All controllers connected can execute individual macro commands at the same
time, but there is no direct communication from controller to controller, only from
controller to the PC. The host program must handle address selection and motion
sequencing among different controllers. This communication model imposes
certain limits for path interpolation and multi-axis motion control as well as for
conditional motion execution.
See the respective Commands manual for programming examples.
3.2
LED Status Indicators
When power is to the controller is turned on, the status LED (labeled STA) will
glow green for normal operation.
The lower LED (labeled ERR) signalizes command errors and should be off unless
a command syntax error was found. The error status is cleared when the error
status is read by command.
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The RS-232 output stages of some PCs may not be capable of driving more than 6 units; if this is a
problem use USB to interface with the PC.
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