Hi all,
Got an application where the customer is looking to use a servo motor, purely because of the very wide speed range required for different products, which makes conventional drives impractical. So we don't need any motion or positioning - just need to be able to drive a servo at a given speed.
My initial thought was a Kinetix 300 and a TL series servo motor. Everything else is on Powerflex 525's with Ethernet/IP control and safe torque off, so this would keep the overall design much the same, just with a different box.
But what I don't know is, do I need a motion-class PLC to drive it, even if I'm not doing motion per se? Again, I'm not interested in positioning as such, only speed control (I will also need speed feedback from the encoder), but I've never spec'd a servo motor before so I'm not sure whether or not I need a PLC with an "M" in the part number. We're currently using a 5069-L320ERS2.
Also open to other, simpler suggestions - primary objective is speed control over Ethernet/IP, with encoder speed feedback (also over Ethernet/IP) and safe torque off.
Got an application where the customer is looking to use a servo motor, purely because of the very wide speed range required for different products, which makes conventional drives impractical. So we don't need any motion or positioning - just need to be able to drive a servo at a given speed.
My initial thought was a Kinetix 300 and a TL series servo motor. Everything else is on Powerflex 525's with Ethernet/IP control and safe torque off, so this would keep the overall design much the same, just with a different box.
But what I don't know is, do I need a motion-class PLC to drive it, even if I'm not doing motion per se? Again, I'm not interested in positioning as such, only speed control (I will also need speed feedback from the encoder), but I've never spec'd a servo motor before so I'm not sure whether or not I need a PLC with an "M" in the part number. We're currently using a 5069-L320ERS2.
Also open to other, simpler suggestions - primary objective is speed control over Ethernet/IP, with encoder speed feedback (also over Ethernet/IP) and safe torque off.