Pulse Input / High-Speed Counter Function; Overview; Settings When Using High-Speed Counter - Panasonic FP-XH M8N16PD User Manual

Pulse Input Function

15.3 Pulse Input / High-speed Counter Function

15.3.1 Overview

The control unit can use the pulse inputs as external counters by setting the pulse input
application to "High-speed counter".
REFERENCE
For the details of monitoring count values, refer to "15.1.4 Monitoring of
•
Pulse Input Values".
For the details of the methods to preset count values, refer to "15.1.5 Pulse
•
Input Value Change Function".

15.3.2 Settings When Using High-speed Counter

For using the pulse input function as the high-speed counter, make the setting in the "pulse
input" dialog box of Configurator PM7.
 Pulse input setting
Select "High-speed counter" from the items of pulse input application.
Item
Pulse input application
Pulse input rotation
direction
Pulse input method
Pulse input
multiplication
Input time constant
15-12
Setting example Settable range
2: High-speed
2: High-speed counter
counter
0: Forward 0: Forward, 1: Reverse
0: 2-phase input, 1: Direction detection input (Pulse/Sign), 2:
0: 2-phase input
Individual input (CW/CCW)
2: Multiply by 4 0: Multiply by 1, 1: Multiply by 2, 2: Multiply by 4
0: No input time 0: No input time constant, 1: 0.1us, 2: 0.5us, 3: 1.0us, 4: 2.0us, 5:
constant 10.0us