EtherCAT Starter Kit for iPOS Drives

The new iPOS family of Technosoft intelligent drives offers a very compact and cost-effective solution for motor control. Using a modular concept, the iPOS drives accept interface plug-ins for EtherCAT or absolute position sensors.

The EtherCAT Starter Kit is a ready-to-run solution for testing an iPOS3604 VX or iPOS3602 VX drive via EtherCAT. It includes an I/O board to plug-in the drive and the EtherCAT interface and optionally, a brushless or step motor.

Based on the Technosoft MotionChip™ technology the new iPOS family of drives embeds motion controller, drive and PLC functionalities into a single unit. The iPOS drives can operate as an EtherCAT slave with CoE protocol, or as a CiA402 CANopen drive without the EtherCAT extension module, or can be programmed to execute complex motion programs directly at drive level, using its built-in motion controller and the high level Technosoft motion language (TML). Using TML can substantially reduce a master task as this can simply call complex motion functions, pre-stored in the drive memory.

Features:

• For rotary and linear brushless, DC brushed,  2/3 ph. step motors
• CAN application protocol over EtherCAT (CoE)
• Various modes of operation
  • Position or speed profiles (trapezoidal, S-curve
  • 3rd order PVT and 1st order PT interpolatio
  • Electronic gearing and cammin
  • External reference: analog or digita
  • Open / closed loop and microstepping (up to 256 μsteps/step) for step motors
• TML instruction set including
  • Motion commands, program flow control, I/O handlin
  • Arithmetic and logic operations, axis synchronization
• Operation with stored motion program
• RS-232 communication for setup and motion programming
• 5 digital inputs 3-36V, NPN
• 4 digital outputs 5-36V, 0.5A, NPN open collector
• 2 analog inputs 12 bit, 0-5V
• Position feedback 
  • Incremental encoder: single-ended, RS422 differential or sine/cosine differential 1Vp
  • Digital or linear Hall
  • Absolute sensors (SSI, BiSS, EnDAT encoders and resolver) via additional extension module
• Supply: logic (7-36V), motor (9-36V)
• 4A cont., 10A peak – iPOS3604 VX
• 2A cont., 3.2A peak – iPOS3602 VX
• Protection for over current, short circuit, earth fault, over temperature, over- and under-voltage, I2t, control error