Preliminary information
This guide is designed to provide the most complete information the operator needs to correctly and
safely install and operate the
ROTADRIVE positioning units RD4 model
.
RD4 units are positioning devices which integrate into one system a brushless motor fitted with gearbox,
a drive, a multiturn absolute encoder and a position controller. They can be used in a variety of
applications in any industrial sector and are suitable to drive secondary axes such as in mold changers,
mobile stops, tools changers, suction cups motion units, conveyor and spindle positioning devices on
packaging & woodworking machineries, among others.
The available interfaces for fieldbus communication are:
Modbus RTU
,
Profibus-DP
and
CANopen DS
301
.
To make it easier to read the text, this guide can be divided into two main sections.
In the first section general information concerning the safety, the mechanical installation and the
electrical connection as well as tips for setting up and running properly and efficiently the unit are
provided.
While in the second section, entitled
CANopen Interface
, both general and specific information is given
on the CANopen interface. In this section the interface features and the parameters implemented in the
unit are fully described.
