Absolute Position Monitoring - Mitsubishi Electric MELSERVO-J5 Series User Manual

Absolute position monitoring

Absolute position in units of servo motor-side pulses
The absolute position can be read in units of servo motor-side pulses. However, an overflow will occur if the position is 32 or
more revolutions away from the home position.
■Transmission
Transmit the command [0] [2] + data No. [9] [0].
■Return
The slave station returns the requested servo motor-side pulses.
Absolute position is sent back in hexadecimal in the servo motor-side pulse unit.
(Data must be converted into decimal.)
For example, data "000186A0" means 100000 pulses in units of motor-side pulses.
Absolute position in the command unit
The absolute position can be read in the command unit.
■Transmission
Transmit the command [0] [2] + data No. [9] [1].
■Return
The slave station returns the requested command pulses.
Absolute position is sent back in hexadecimal in the command unit.
(Data must be converted into decimal.)
For example, data "000186A0" means 100000 pulses in the command unit.
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