Rockwell IOL and Encoders

[lcabal27]

I was wondering if 5032-8IOLM12DR are suitable for encoders devices. I'm concern about the RPI and loosing encoder counts using this type of blocks. Has anyone has expirience with these IOLs and enconders?

 

[jholm90]

Encoder counts are stored in the encoder, the io-link interface would read the value stored in the encoder, not the rising/falling pulses. Process speed would determine if the IOL was fast enough or if a dedicated high speed counter should be used instead. We use io-link for clamp closed verification, then a second later verify closed position was within tolerance, then release the clamp - I wouldn't trust it in a cammed application as the response speed wouldn't be gauranteed <~2s