Standard Features for ALL Simple
Step Boards
All Simple Step®
Stepper Motion Controller Boards comes with the following features for the complete product
line.
- Single Voltage Operation (as low as 7.0VDC to as much as 50.0VDC).
- Translator/Indexer and Driver all on one board (except the Gecko
series which can be either Bipolar or DC Servo).
- Bipolar stepper motion control for all boards except the Gecko series
(Bipolar or DC Servo)
- Serial Network System with address switches (either Simple Step®
RS232 Network or RS422/485). (SSNEMA17 has only RS422/485)
- Each axis has its own 30MHz microprocessor (58.9MHz for the ARM7
microprocessor )
- Each axis has separately adjustable Software or Hardware current
limiting.
- Each axis has a dedicated Home (infrared with on board current
limiting to 20ma@5VDC) and Limit (microswitch) Input.
- Each axis has Software Controlled I/O for general use
(1-4 TTL I/O Lines).
- Each axis has 0.5 amp, diode clamped MOSFET output that is
software controlled. (Not available for the SSNEMA17)
- All Boards run in a simple ASCII command mode.
- All Boards have a Power LED.
- All Boards come with a 5VDC switcher that is 85% efficient.
(SSNEMA17 has 3.3VDC and 1.8VDC LDO regulator)
- Every purchase comes with Simple Step®
for Windows Software FREE.
- Every purchase comes with the Simple Step® ActiveX control FREE.
- All Boards can have the baud rate changed from 9.6K to 115.2K
after power up is complete.
- All Stepper Motion Controller Boards have a minimum software selection of
Half and Full Step modes.
- All Microstepping Motion Controller Boards can run to 1/16 of a step
(except for the 77 which has Microstepping to 1/8 step).
- All Motion Controller Boards have software selectable Idle power
mode.
- All Boards have a speed range from 1 sps (steps per second) to 15,000
sps in an S curve format (all units now have the prescaler option
installed which allows sub-sps speeds).
- All Boards have a unique new
Linear Motion Algorithm
with the ability to software select between the old motion system and
the new one.
- Minimum 400 character IEEPROM on ALL units
with optional 2-16K IEEPROM.
- All units now have a Joystick Input via the
TTL I/O lines.
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