OEMsparky
Electrical
- Jan 5, 2000
- 20
I've recently built a machine that requires one stepper axis, has approx. 10 inputs and 12 outputs, and a display with at least 4 lines. The temporary solution was to use a maple systems interface with a compumotor zeta 6104 single axis stepper drive and an Allen Bradley micrologix PLC. This however is very cumbersome to communicate between the PLC and stepper drive (I could only communicate using the I/O lines). I'm looking for a good way to combine this into a cleaner package. I do not have much room for a large interface, but did look at the possibility of a CTC P1 interface that has the capability to add a PC104 card for the motion. However, it looks as if the I/O on the PC104 card may not be enough.<br>
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Any other suggestions of intelligent interfaces or other setups that you've used that could handle this task without taking up too much space?
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Any other suggestions of intelligent interfaces or other setups that you've used that could handle this task without taking up too much space?