RE: Intelligent Stepper Drives

2004-05-19 Thread Dalmady, Otto
Title: RE: Intelligent Stepper Drives George, I've used RS-232 NEAT 310M stepper controllers in the past (over 5 years ago). They've worked quite well on high volume production lines that ran 24 hours a day. See: http://www.neat.com/ Regards, otto ---origin

Re: Intelligent Stepper Drives

2004-05-18 Thread David Ferster
I've been using an Applied Motion 1240i. It's inexpensive, very robust, small, and easy to use. It has a serial interface and although I don't use the feature will run it's own program internally. David I am building some linear stages to be controlled by labview... the application is fairly d

RE: Intelligent Stepper Drives

2004-05-18 Thread Eric Scott
George, we use animatics smart motors here for our x-y tables. They have a built in motor controller and a serial interface. You can write a basic script and dowload it to the motor. The motor has I/O in the form of serial commands. We are able to use VISA read/writes within labview to communic

RE: Intelligent Stepper Drives

2004-05-18 Thread Keith_Fadgen
I've been using the microLynx 4 from Intelligent Motion Systems (http://www.imshome.com/lynx_family.html). They have serial protocol and an internal language. You can either write code internal to the device and use digital lines from a LabVIEW DAQ Device to toggle and subsequently run predefine