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ABSOLUTE POSITION
ROTARY ELECTRIC ENCODER
TM
USER MANUAL
VLX-64
Copyright © 2020 Netzer Precision Position Sensors A.C.S. Ltd. All rights reserved.

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  • Page 1 ABSOLUTE POSITION ROTARY ELECTRIC ENCODER USER MANUAL VLX-64 Copyright © 2020 Netzer Precision Position Sensors A.C.S. Ltd. All rights reserved.
  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    INDUSTRIAL ABSOLUTE POSITION VLX-64 USER MANUAL ROTARY ELECTRIC ENCODER AUTOMATION Table of Contents Preface......................... 1.1 Version: 2.0 Mar. 2020 ..................1.2 Applicable documents ..................2. ESD protection ...................... 3. Product overview ....................2-3 3.1 Overview ......................3.2 Installation flow chart ...................
  • Page 3: Preface

    OBSERVE PRECAUTIONS FOR HANDLING displacement and a space/time modulated ELECTROSTATIC SENSITIVE DEVICES electric field. Mounting verification The VLX-64 Electric Encoder™ is semi- modular, i.e., its rotor and stator are separate. (1) Encoder stator (2) Encoder rotor Electric / SW compensation...
  • Page 4: Encoder Mounting

    For proper performance the air gap should installation verification.” be 0.6 mm +/- 0.1mm 4.1 Standard order The package of the standard VLX-64 contains the The optimal recommended amplitude values encoder Stator & Rotor . are middle of the range according to those...
  • Page 5: Electrical Interconnection

    Electric Encoder Power supply Setup SSI / BiSS Electric Encoder NanoMIC Connect Netzer encoder to the converter, connect the converter to the computer and run the Electric Encoder Explorer Software Tool Contents Preface ESD Protection Product Overview Unpacking Electrical interconnection...
  • Page 6: Mounting Verification

    INDUSTRIAL ABSOLUTE POSITION VLX-64 USER MANUAL ROTARY ELECTRIC ENCODER AUTOMATION 7. Mounting verification 7.2 Mechanical installation verification 8. Calibration (g) At the end of a successful verification, the SW will show “Correct Mechanical Mechanical Installation Verification 7.1 Starting the Encoder Explorer 8.1 Offset calibration...
  • Page 7: Caa Calibration

    INDUSTRIAL ABSOLUTE POSITION VLX-64 USER MANUAL ROTARY ELECTRIC ENCODER AUTOMATION (b) Start the data acquisition while rotating the Offset compensated fine / Corse channel 8.2 CAA calibration shaft. The following calibration aligns the coarse/ fine channel by collecting data from each point The progress bar (c) indicates the collection of both channels.
  • Page 8: Setting The Encoder Zero Point

    INDUSTRIAL ABSOLUTE POSITION VLX-64 USER MANUAL ROTARY ELECTRIC ENCODER AUTOMATION 8.3 Setting the encoder zero point 8.4 Jitter test In case the reading data (blue dots) are not 9. Operational Mode evenly distributed on a thin circle, you may The zero position can be defined anywhere Perform a jitter test to evaluate the quality 9.1 SSi / BiSS...
  • Page 9: 10. Mechanical Drawings

    INDUSTRIAL ABSOLUTE POSITION VLX-64 USER MANUAL ROTARY ELECTRIC ENCODER AUTOMATION 10. Mechanical drawings WARNING Unless Otherwise Specified Dimensions are in: mm Surface finish: N6 Do not use Loctite or other glues containing Cyanoacrylate. Linear tolerances We recommend to use 3M glue - Scotch-Weld Epoxy 0.5-4.9: ±0.05 mm...

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