New Industry Products

Industrial Devices Introduces the Impulse Micro-Stepping Drive

July 05, 2001 by Jeff Shepard

Industrial Devices Corp. (Petaluma, CA) introduced its new Impulse micro-stepping drive. The Impulse utilizes the power of a DSP and features five motor-control functions. The drive features open-loop stall-detect for detecting a motor stall

without an encoder or resolver, multi-stepping for low-resolution step input, and dynamic smoothing for rounding the edges of the move profile. A motion-node option provides additional move capabilities.

The Impulse is able to power frame-size 23

and 34 stepping motors by virtue of its 4A of available current. Additional features include programmable jog function with dual-speed settings, current-reduction modes with programmable time and reduction amounts, four programmable inputs, one programmable

output, and a user-configurable I/O to active-high or active-low operation. Units also have programmable input resolution from 200 to 100,000 steps per revolution. They are DIN-rail-mountable and have internal fan-powered cooling, 160Vdc bus voltage and a built-in regenerative circuit.