Kuhnke FIO Drive Control

Kuhnke FIO is a system of I/O modules for interconnecting the process signals in an EtherCAT network. It consists of the bus coupler and a range of I/O modules.

This extremely compact drive controller is the general-purpose solution for both, stepper motors and brushless DC motors. Magnetic field-orientated vector control and encoder feedback plus sine wave commutation ensure highly dynamic, very efficient, smooth and balanced operation at low running noise - particularly when it comes to driving stepper motors. Step errors are corrected along the path already and the load angle error is eliminated within a single full step. Owing to continuous motor current monitoring, the control unit supplies just as much power as necessary, thus making the system very energy-efficient. An integrated web server helps to set up the unit. Thus, no software needs to be installed to configure the module. Instead, any PC featuring and Ethernet port and a web browser will do. Furthermore this compact drive controller has the cULus certification.

Drives can run in either of the following modes:

• Profile Position mode
• Velocity mode
• Profile Velocity mode
• Profile Torque mode
• Homing mode
• Cyclic synchronous position mode
• Cyclic synchronous velocity mode
• Cyclic synchronous torque mode

System properties