Geo Brick Servo Drive
4/6/8 Axis Intelligent Amplifier System
Availible for Under $3,250
The Geo Brick Drive brings together the intelligence and capability of the Turbo PMAC2 motion controller with the latest IGBT-based drive technology in a compact, smart 4/6/8 axis servo drive package.
The flexible nature of the Turbo PMAC2 enables the Geo Brick Drive to drive brush, brushless or AC induction motors with unsurpassed pure digital DSP performance. The absence of analog signals—required for typical motion controller/drive interfacing—enables higher gains, better overall performance and tighter integration, while significantly driving costs and setup time down.
- The Geo Brick is capable of controlling up to eight axes with direct-PWM commands
- Motorola DSP 56k digital signal processor
- Turbo PMAC2 CPU (for kinematics, open servo, NC applications)
- Fully Configurable via USB2.0 and/or Ethernet TCP/IP (100 Base-T)
- Operation from a PC
- Stand-alone operation
- Linear and circular interpolation
- 256 motion programs capacity
- 64 asynchronous PLC program capability
- Rotating buffer for large programs
- 36-bit position range (± 64 billion counts)
- Adjustable S-curve acceleration and deceleration
- Cubic trajectory calculations, splines
- Set and change parameters in real time
- Torque, Velocity and Position control standard
- Small footprint saves space
- Full rated temperature cooling standard (no need for additional fans)
- 16 inputs (expandable to 32 with option) fully-protected and isolated with separate commons for two banks of eight
- Eight thermal-fuse protected outputs (expandable to 16 with option) rated for 0.5A @ 24VDC each (Flexible outputs allow for sinking or sourcing of current depending on whether the common emitter or common collector is used.)
- Primary encoder for each axis with TTL differential/single-ended inputs with A, B quadrature channels and C index channel, 10 MHz cycle rate, and digital Hall-effect inputs
- Five flags per axis using DB-25: HOME, PLIM, MLIM and USER inputs; EQU compare outputs for first four axes and five more flags per axis if the 6 or 8-axis system is ordered
- Optional analog inputs and outputs, ± 10VDC
- Optional two PWM outputs*.
- Optional Dual Port RAM (Required for NC)
- Optional Modbus Protocol.
