I am considering Kflop as the controller for my cnc router to drive Teknic CPM-SD motors with integral drivers. In reading both user manuals, it appears the Kflop enable, step and dir outputs are 3.3 to 5 v max. The CPM-SD on the other hand requires 5-24 v inputs @ 8-12 ma. With these right the limits of each other, what is required to make them compatible?
Are you aware of any one controlling the Teknic motors with a Kflop?
Group: DynoMotion
Message: 13937
From: Tom Kerekes
Date: 10/26/2016
Subject: Re: Kflop motor compatibility
I Googled and found this:
5-24VDC just means ClearPath will work with logic signal
sources where logic “low” is 0VDC while logic “high” can be any value between 5VDC and 24VDC
inclusive.
Technically it says they need 5.00V and 0.00V to guarantee
functionality. I doubt if that is actually what they mean as that
would make them incompatible with most every controller or
microprocessor that I'm aware of.
KFLOP in Open Collector mode will provide > 4.5V in the "on"
state and < 1.3V in the "off" state.
I'm not aware of anyone specifically using those drives.
One disadvantage with those drives is although they are closed loop
and have encoder feedback they don't provide it as an output (as far
as i can see). This means that KFLOP can't monitor following errors
and whenever the drives are disabled (or fault) the position will be
lost and it will require re-homing to recover.
Regards
TK
On 10/26/2016 9:51 PM,
mlallement@... [DynoMotion] wrote:
Hi Tom,
I am considering Kflop as the controller for my cnc
router to drive Teknic CPM-SD motors with integral
drivers. In reading both user manuals, it appears the
Kflop enable, step and dir outputs are 3.3 to 5 v max.
The CPM-SD on the other hand requires 5-24 v inputs @
8-12 ma. With these right the limits of each other,
what is required to make them compatible?
Are you aware of any one controlling the Teknic
motors with a Kflop?
