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  • FESTO EMME-AS, EMMS-AS and EMMT-AS Series

    The Festo EMMx-AS series servo motors come equipped with different types of feedback devices such as Resolvers, Heidenhain EnDat encoders, and SICK Stegmann Hiperface encoders. When using serial en...

  • Mitsubishi HG Series Motors - Melservo J4 Drives

    Overview  The Mitsubishi HG series are rotary servo motors from the later end of the Melservo J4 drives. They mostly come equipped with OBA/OSA18 encoders although they are often listed as 22-bit i...

  • Mitsubishi Melservo J5 Series

    Overview  The new Mitsubishi Melservo J5 series drives use motors that come equipped with a new 26-bit resolution battery-less absolute position encoder. The removable type encoders are labeled as ...

  • Powering Feedback Devices with a Spare DC Supply

    The TI-5000JX and TI-3000JX testers have a DC voltage output of 5V which is used to power many compatible encoders. Some feedback devices exist that require a different power supply. We offer a few...

  • Omron R7M-A Motors with C-Channel Encoders

    These motors appear to be copies of Yaskawa motors with C-Channel encoders. The Omron manual lists the encoder output signals as A,B, and S. The S channel contains all six of the commutation pulses...

  • Beckhoff AM Series Motors

    IntroductionThe latest release of Athena software now supports the entire Beckhoff AM series motors from the earliest AM2 series, AM3, and the latest AM8 series as well.  Beckoff AM motors can be e...

  • Panasonic MINAS Motors

    IntroductionThe latest release of Athena software includes support for the entire Panasonic MINAS series motors.  This includes motors and encoders from the earliest Minas A series drives (MFE2500-...

  • TI-3000JX Maximum Motor Speeds

    Background When using the TI-3000JX we need to understand the maximum speed we can run a particular motor. Running speed is one of the parameters you want to evaluate when test running a motor afte...

  • SICK Stegmann SNS Suggested Test Sequence

    Background The SICK Stegmann SNS series of encoders are one of their first encoder offerings to use the Hiperface serial output. These legacy encoders are a bit more complicated to test than newer ...

  • AMC B30A40AC Amplifier Setup Guide

    GENERAL DESCRIPTION The Advanced Motion Controls (AMC) amplifiers require some modifications before they can be used with our TI-3000JX system. If you receive your amplifier when purchasing the TI-...