A digital stepper drive with analogue 0-5v input (32 pages)
Summary of Contents for Motion DM805-A
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Software Operation Manual For DM805-AI A Digital Stepper Drive With Analogue 0-5V Input V1.0-150324 (March 2015) Motion Control Products Ltd. Innovative products for Automation Industry Tel.: (+44) 01202 599922...
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Motion Control Product’s general policy does not recommend the use of its products in life support or aircraft applications wherein a failure or malfunction of the product may directly threaten life or injury.
Save as a file ......................3 Connecting Drive ....................3 Current Loop Tuning Window ................4 Properties Window ....................6 Offset .........................7 Save to Drive ......................8 Restore Factory Setting..................8 3. HOW TO CONFIGURE THE DRIVE ..............8 Set Motor Parameters ..................8 Motion Control Products Ltd. www.motioncontrolproducts.com...
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Table of Contents Tuning Current Loop ..................9 Anti-resonance Tuning ..................16 Adjusting Electronic Damping................18 Motion Control Products Ltd. Tel.: (+44) 01202 599922...
DM805-AI. The user can tune the current loop and adjust the anti-resonance parameters via this software. Work Platform After installing the software and open it, the software is displayed as follows. Menu Bar & Toolbar Properties Window Motion Control Products Ltd. P a g e www.motioncontrolproduts.com...
Properties parameters. Drive -> Offset Check analog and potentiometer offset. Save to Drive Save all data to drive Restore Factory Restore factory settings Setting Help-> About Software Information Motion Control Products Ltd. P a g e Tel.: (+44) 01202 599922...
Before connecting the drive, please make sure: 1) The RS232 cable .has been connected between the drive and PC serial port; 2) Power has been applied to the drive and the green LED is on. Notice Motion Control Products Ltd. P a g e www.motioncontrolproduts.com...
Green Curve: Actual current of step test NOTES: After finishing the input of the number, don’t forget to hit the “Enter” key in the keyboard to confirm new value. Motion Control Products Ltd. P a g e Tel.: (+44) 01202 599922...
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Click this button to activate the test. A target curve (red) Test Button and an actual curve (green) will be displayed on the screen for user’s analysis. Motion Control Products Ltd. P a g e www.motioncontrolproduts.com...
Amplitude The user can enter a value directly in the text box or move the or 0- 256 slider bar back and forth to get an optimum value. Motion Control Products Ltd. P a g e Tel.: (+44) 01202 599922...
Accel/Ramp or Decel/LoSpeed potentiometers. Offset It is used to check the offset of the potentiometers and analog input in factory. The user can ignore it. Motion Control Products Ltd. P a g e www.motioncontrolproduts.com...
“Enter” key in the keyboard to confirm new value Set Motor Parameters Click Drive->Properties to open the Property window. You can set the motor’s dynamic current, microstep and stop mode. Motion Control Products Ltd. P a g e Tel.: (+44) 01202 599922...
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Otherwise motor will be easily stalled or howls WHEN it is powered up. Below example is the tuning process of DM805-AI with a NEMA 23 motor at 24VDC supply voltage. Motion Control Products Ltd. P a g e www.motioncontrolproduts.com...
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“target current” and the green curve is “actual current”. There is a big gap between them in the scope. It indicates that a larger Proportional Gain needs to be introduced. Start Test: Proportional Gain = 500 Integral Gain= Motion Control Products Ltd. P a g e | 10 Tel.: (+44) 01202 599922...
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(the actual current) a little higher than the red curve (the target). So we decrease Proportional Gain to 3700 until the actual value is exactly over the target value. Proportional Gain= 2000 Integral Gain =1 Motion Control Products Ltd. P a g e | 1 1 www.motioncontrolproduts.com...
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DM805-AI Digital Stepper Drives Software Operation Manual Proportional Gain= 3000 Integral Gain =1 Proportional Over -shoot Gain= 4000 Integral Gain =1 Motion Control Products Ltd. P a g e | 12 Tel.: (+44) 01202 599922...
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Proportional Gain. High Proportional Gain causes big vibration, system lag and makes the performance worse. The following figures show how to tune the Integral gain. Drag a triangle to zoom in Motion Control Products Ltd. P a g e | 1 3 www.motioncontrolproduts.com...
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DM805-AI Digital Stepper Drives Software Operation Manual Zero Integral Gain: Proportional Gain =3700 Integral Gain =1 ↑ Integral Gain: Proportional Gain =3700 Integral Gain =200 Motion Control Products Ltd. P a g e | 14 Tel.: (+44) 01202 599922...
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Don’t forget to click Drive->Save To Drive to store the changed value to the drive’s EEPROM. Further adjustment: Proportional Gain =3500 Integral Gain =300 Motion Control Products Ltd. P a g e | 1 5 www.motioncontrolproduts.com...
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= OFF and SW8 = ON. As the Speed input is connected to Signal GND, the motor speed is determined by the LoSpeed potentiometer and it can be adjusted from 0RPS to 5RPS. Motion Control Products Ltd. P a g e | 16...
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2.4 4.8 RPS. 1. You can calculate the motor speed roughly as follows Notice 2. It is very important to make the Amplitude and Phase adjustments at the resonance speed Motion Control Products Ltd. P a g e | 1 7 www.motioncontrolproduts.com...
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The factory setting for the electronic damping is 1000. If the motor is easily stalled and generates odd noise at middle speed, you can try other values such as 500, 1500, 2000, 2500. Motion Control Products Ltd. P a g e | 18...