Servo Motor Control – How to control DC Servo Motors
In this example, we’ll be controlling a brushless DC servo motors.
Here is what we’ll end up with :
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Wirring PLC to ClearPath Motor
Wiring
PLC-to-Motor connections using Teknic’s 8 wire control cable:
- Tie Blue, Green, White and Black to the same +5V used to power the PLC.
- Yellow is Step
- Brown is Direction
- Orange is Enable
- Red is a signal from the motor, telling you when a movement is complete
Programming
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Files used in this example
Faster Example
Let’s turn things up a bit: This example goes 200,000 steps per second for 10 rotations in each direction
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Use the following files for the Faster Example