irondesk40
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I recently was talking to a vendor that was telling me that one of his customers is using a micrologix 1400 plc to control a Kinetx 300 servo drive by using MSG instructions over ethernet. Has anyone done this and if so could you possibly share enough info to help a person get started? I am using the Control Technique Unidrive and using the Control Technique HMI with the built in drivers that is actually a red lion that is labeled Control Technique. This is a very solid set up but is pretty costly and we looking at possibly adding a servo unit to feed some product into some new machines we just built. Total machines is approx 40. Each of these machines at the moment have a micrologix 1400 and a maples HMI unit. We had to build them as well as possible but due to budget requirements that is the components we used. if it was possible to add a servo motor such as the Kintex 300 and then control it with the micrologix and still keep the same maples HMI unit then the cost would be able to stay within budjet requirements.
Has anyone done this type of project? If so would you share some sample program or info? Thanks
Has anyone done this type of project? If so would you share some sample program or info? Thanks