controller for compax3 ?

[srin]

Hi,

I am trying to control two parker motors MPP  (MPP1003C6S-KPSN) series motors with absolute encoders and have two Compax3's to go with them. using Acr9000 seems to be little confusing. Would like to use NI Controller to ease the speed of development of my application. Need advise on what I would  need. Will the connections be straight farword or would I need to make custom cables. Will I be able get encoder information easily. I am new to motion control and any advise would be very helpful.

Thanks,

Srinivas

[Brian_Beal]

As long as you have the "T10" versions of the Compax3, you should be able to use any servo motion controller.  If you have the EPL version of the drives, then you will want to use an ACR9040.  I doubt that any premade cables exist to connect the Compax3 to an NI controller.  You can wire between 2 breakout boxes, or make up a cable to go from the Compax3 to the NI motion interface.  If you are new to motion, then you will want to look through what is offered on this site in ways of tutorials, etc.  All motion control can be intimidating, and there will be a learning curve with any line of controllers.  If you are using Labview, then it would be easier to use an NI controller, although Parker does have .NET and ActiveX libraries for the ACR9000 series that will work with Labview.

[srin]

I have the T10 version of Compax3. These motors run a set of syringe pumps to pressure up cylinders. Should I go with 7340 or 7350.  What other hardware do I need? Can anyone who has already connected a compax3 to NI controller give me an insight in to how they did the cableing.

thanks

Srinivas

[Eric_R]

Hi Srinivas,

For your application both the 7340 and 7350 should work, but for a complete display of the differances please visit our website (http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=240&message.id=6641). You will also need a UMI 7764 in order to hook up your 3rd party drive to our motion controller cards (http://sine.ni.com/nips/cds/view/p/lang/en/nid/3970). Thank you for your interest in National Instruments products.


Thank You,
Eric Reid
Applications Engineer