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specific application problems such as tower sway, liquid sloshing, line
shaſting and load sharing.
Can you provide a real-world application where speed control
and positioning systems have aided in operations?
A MOVIKIT solves specific problems. Typically, most applications will
use MOVIKIT Velocity or MOVIKIT Positioning. This allows the speed
control and positioning, for example your conveyor or hoist. Additional
interesting MOVIKIT's include the Multi-Axis controller. You can control a
crane bridge drive with four motors over long distances without positive
contact between the drive wheels and the rails. The Multi-Axis controller
acts in a similar way to traction control and ABS braking in your vehicle.
In the event of wheel slip the Multi-Axis controller MOVIKIT will prevent
bridge skewing by controlling the motors to prevent this based on
feedback from external laser distance measurement systems. We also
have additional MOVIKIT functions that can. For more details on the
MOVIKIT's visit our Online Support.
What's the difference between MOVIDRIVE and MOVIGEAR/
MOVIMOT/ MOVIMOT Flexible?
MOVIDRIVE is typically mounted in a panel where you have higher
power requirements and need features such as sharing a single power
supply between multiple axes. For example, you can build a custom
robotic application (gantry, SCARA, delta, etc.) and use any high
horsepower SEW gear motor combination to move an axis. MOVIDRIVE
and MOVIMOT is where the invertor sits on the motor. Typically, you use
them on conveyors or in positioning applications whether you are using
an AC Motor, Linear motor, Electric cylinder or Servo motor. MOVIMOT
flexible is field mounted close to the motor. These work best out in the
field where you do not have to think about the panel, all you have to do
is run power and communications to it. This allows one to have an
additional axis running.
Are there any advantages to using MOVIDRIVE and MOVIGEAR/
MOVIMOT/ MOVIMOT Flexible?
We can run our MOVIDRIVE on super capacitors or batteries. In the
Load Sharing
event of a power failure the machine can keep running because the
super capacitors provide short term power. If the mains does not
recover, you can use the energy in the super capacitors to move the
machine to a safe position or complete a cycle (for example no cleaning
in injection molding machines due to uncontrolled halt), or keep running
if it's a short term power fluctuation. You can also reduce the peak
demand on the power supply by using the super capacitors to provide
short term power spikes.
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