DMC-300xx Single-Axis Controller and 800W Sine Drive is now in Standard Release
Posted on Wednesday, January 4th, 2012 by Mark Middleton at GalilPosted in Inside Galil, Motion Controllers | No Comments »
Galil's new DMC-300xx single-axis Ethernet Motion Controller Series is now out of beta release and is available as a standard product with CE certification. The DMC-300xx provides higher performance, better power efficiency, smaller size and a lower price than prior ...
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Key Benefits of Galil High Performance Controller & Drive Products
Posted on Tuesday, October 25th, 2011 by John Hayes at GalilPosted in Drives, Motion Controllers | No Comments »
A common shortcut with single axis controller/drive combinations is to use a single control loop (and processor) to handle both the Position Control Loop (ie: PID loop) and the Amplifier Current loop. Galil separates these two loops onto different hardware ...
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Using Notch Filters to Compensate for Resonance in Servo Motor Control Systems
Posted on Monday, August 22nd, 2011 by Lisa Wade at GalilPosted in DMC Programming, Motion Controllers | No Comments »
Servo motor control systems with resonance often create difficult problems for designers because it causes the servo control system to over-shoot and oscillate. An effective way to compensate for resonance in a servo system is the use of a notch filter ...
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Trapezoidal vs Sinusoidal Brushless Servo Amplifiers
Posted on Thursday, June 30th, 2011 by John Hayes at GalilPosted in Drives, Motion Controllers | No Comments »
The new Galil Sine drive amplifiers are a welcome addition to the existing DMC-40x0 and DMC-41x3 line-up of servo and stepper amplifiers - yet the addition of the new amplifiers also brings up a question - "When should I use ...
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Manual Servo Tuning using Velocity Zone Method
Posted on Friday, February 25th, 2011 by Todd Shearer at GalilPosted in Motion Controllers | 1 Comment »
There have been many methods developed over the years for tuning the loop constants of a servo motor control axis, ranging from various auto-tuning methods to step-by-step manual tuning. All of these methods offer users various benefits, but all have ...
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Drivers for DMC-41X3 USB virtual COM port
Posted on Wednesday, December 1st, 2010 by Todd Shearer at GalilPosted in Motion Controllers | 1 Comment »
The DMC-41x3 motion controller has a USB port available for controller communications. When connected to a PC USB port, the DMC-41x3 will be accessible on a virtual COM ...
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Step-by-step manual PID tuning of Galil motor controllers
Posted on Tuesday, November 23rd, 2010 by Todd Shearer at GalilPosted in Motion Controllers | 1 Comment »
There are many ways to tune the Galil PID filter, ranging from auto-tuning methods in GalilTools or WSDK, to an assortment of manual methods. For the novice user, how to manually tune the PID filter may not be easy nor ...
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Error Light (Red LED) on Galil Motion Controllers
Posted on Thursday, July 1st, 2010 by John Hayes at GalilPosted in Motion Controllers | No Comments »
The red error LED has multiple meanings for Galil motion controllers. Here is a list of reasons the error light will come on and possible solutions: 1) Under Voltage - if the controller is not receiving enough voltage to power ...
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Servo Motor Controller Basics
Posted on Tuesday, February 9th, 2010 by John Hayes at GalilPosted in Motion Controllers | 1 Comment »
This article is a brief introduction to servo motor control and explains the different components in a servo motor system and how each component works to create the entire motion control solution. An example system is shown here: Servo Motor ...
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Coordinate Transformation Options for Motion Controllers
Posted on Friday, July 17th, 2009 by Todd Shearer at GalilPosted in Motion Controllers | 5 Comments »
Summary Galil now offers users the option of ordering motion controllers with on board Coordinate Transformation. This option allows a user with a complex kinematic transform to have that calculation performed directly on the Galil controller. Working with a Galil application ...
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