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ERMISSION TO COMMENCE NSTALLATION The MCD EPOS P 60 W is considered as partly completed machinery according to EU’s directive 2006/ 42/EC, Article 2, Clause (g) and therefore is intended to be incorporated into or assembled with other machinery or other partly completed machinery or equipment.
Use for other and/or additional purposes is not permitted. maxon motor, the manufacturer of the equip- ment described, does not assume any liability for loss or damage that may arise from any other and/or additional use than the intended purpose.
The present document – including all parts thereof – is protected by copyright. Any use (including repro- duction, translation, microfilming and other means of electronic data processing) beyond the narrow restrictions of the copyright law without the prior approval of maxon motor ag, is not permitted and sub- ject to persecution under the applicable law.
• wiring examples. maxon motor control’s MCD EPOS P 60 W is a small-sized, free programmable compact drive. It con- tains a brushless EC motor with Hall sensors, digital encoder and a digital position control unit. The opti- mized commutation by space vector control offers to drive the integrated brushless EC motor with mini- mal torque ripple and low noise.
– and be kept – in a safe operating mode. • Be aware that you are not entitled to perform any repair on components supplied by maxon motor. Best Practice •...
Depending on load (continuous min. 2.6 A / acceleration, short-time min. 9 A) 1) Calculate required voltage under load using following scheme (the formula takes a max. PWM cycle of 90% and a max. voltage drop of -1 V at MCD EPOS P 60 W into account): Known values: •...
Connector [J2] Pin [3] “EPOS TxD” Pin 2 “PC RxD” Note • The RS232 port serves as programming interface using maxon motor’s programming tool «EPOS Studio». It can not be used by the application program. • Consider your PC's serial port maximal baud rate.
Status LEDs Three LEDs display the current status of the MCD EPOS P 60 W and its application program, as well as possible errors: • Green LED shows the operating status • Red LED indicates errors • Blue LED shows the status of the application program For detailed information please read separate document «EPOS Firmware Specification».
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The present document – including all parts thereof – is protected by copyright. Any use (including reproduction, translation, microfilming and other means of electronic data processing) beyond the narrow restrictions of the copyright law without the prior approval of maxon motor ag, is not permitted and subject to persecution under the applicable law. maxon motor ag Brünigstrasse 220...
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