Impulse splitter for incremental encoders, programmable encoder input a,/a,b,/b,z,/z, for use with rs422 or ttl differential signals or with htl signals differential or single-ended, two encoder outputs a,/a,b,/b,z,/z each with individually programmable o (12 pages)
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1. Safety Instructions and Responsibility 1.1. General Safety Instructions This operation manual is a significant component of the unit and includes important rules and hints about the installation, function and usage. Non-observance can result in damage and/or impairment of the functions to the unit or the machine or even in injury to persons using the equipment! Please read the following instructions carefully before operating the device and observe all safety and warning instructions! Keep the manual for later use.
Please find all respective hints and rules on www.motrona.com/download.html --> “[General EMC Rules for Wiring, Screening and Earthing]”. 1.4. Cleaning, Maintenance and Service Notes To clean the front of the unit please use only a slightly damp (not wet!), soft cloth.
2. Introduction IT 251 has been designed as a universal encoder interface for use with incremental encoder signals. The unit is suitable to solve the following applications: Level conversion from TTL / RS422 to HTL and vice-versa Division of quadrature encoder pulses, with adjustable division rate from 1:1 to 1:4096 ...
4. Connections and Terminal Assignments For frequency input, either the RS 422 inputs (D-SUB) or the 10 … 30 V HTL inputs can be used. The other inputs, which are not in use, must remain unconnected or must be disabled by corresponding DIL switch setting.
5. Basic Switch Settings Upon commissioning, some basic settings must be done by switch DIL4. These settings select one of the possible standards for expressing the direction of rotation on inputs and outputs. Also the potential of the metallic housings of the SUB-D-connectors can be set, and the inputs can be enabled or disabled (RS422 signals or HTL signals) Changes of the DIL switch positions will become active only after the next power-up of the unit!
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Configuration DIL4 on on Output direction on off standard off on on on Input direction on off standard off on Connects the metallic housing of SUB-D-connector “RS422 Input” to terminal 12 Metallic housing of the SUB-D-connector “RS422 Input” is potential-free Connects the metallic housing of SUB-D-connector “RS422 Output”...
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this information, even when the phase is barely visible on an oscilloscope. For this kind of application, please set the A/B delay time by DIL switch 2, with consideration of your maximum output frequency. For division rates higher than 1:1, the phase displacement gets more and more close to a real 90º...
6. Setting of the Impulse Division Rate The incremental division rate for the A/B input pulses can be set by means of switch DIL1 and by positions 1 – 4 of switch DIL2. The marker pulse Z uses a separate divider and marker division is described later. The switch positions use a binary code like shown in the subsequent list.
7. Index Pulse Divider (Marker Pulse Z) 7.1. Unchanged index pulse (bypass) When you like to just bypass the index pulse from the input to the output (without any changes of frequency, position and pulse width), please use the following DIL switch settings: DIL3 DIL2 8 7 6 5 4 3 2...
7.3. Setting of the division rate of the index divider These settings use the same rules and codes as shown with the main divider (see section 6) Index Divider [Z] DIL3 on = log.0, off = log.1 Binary value 1 : 1 1 : 2 1 : 3 1 : 4...
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DIL2 Enlarged index pulse (one full encoder revolution) The pulse width of the enlarged output index pulse corresponds to the distance between two input index pulses (with index divider > 1 only). Index pulse width adapted to output frequency (1/4 output period) DIL2 (only applicable with quadrature input A/B, 90°) off*) The pulse width corresponds to 1/4 of one period of the output frequency...
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