encoders

Hello I have project that has an encoder included on a motor we were unaware of. It has single or dual channel capability.

The 525 drive has a impulse terminal that is compatible with the freq. of the encoder 100KHZ. But I have the following questions.

1. What would you use a single channel for? Just speed? Position? I know the dual channel9Quadrant) is for direction. Can someone tell which encoder type is used for what?

2. If I used the single channel with the 525 impulse terminal,how would you hook it up? I only ever hooked one up to a encoder card. The 525 just has one terminal for the pulse. So where would the A-go and the A Not go? Or would it be the A and B off of the encoder?

The following reference material from Dynapar is good.

https://www.dynapar.com/uploadedFiles/Products/Danaher_Encoder_Handbook.pdf

http://www.dynapar.com/uploadedFiles/_Site_Root/Technology/White_Papers/New_incremental%20absolute_7_29_13.pdf

1 - Take a look at Table 1 in the second reference to see the applications for Singe, Quad and Absolute encoders.
2 - You are correct in hooking up only the one single channel.

Hope this helps,
Garry
http://www.accautomation.ca

Thank you unclear abour 2.
Would I use A and A Not? A and B?

My partner says to use the drive common and hook it to 0v on the encoder,24V to V+ on encoder and just A to the pulse terminal on drive. This is new to me. I always had atleast a a A and A Not to work with.

Yes you can wire it up that way. In fact you could use any of the four encoder inputs if you are using only one of the inputs. The only difference is the phasing.

Regards,
Garry
http://www.accautomation.ca