Linear Actuator – Self Compensated

Description

The Linear Actuator includes inside the housing all the necessary circuitry (logic and driver) for position control using standard RS422 (RS485 duplex on 4 wires) serial communication (19200 baud, 8, N, 1). The actuator is equipped with an absolute encoder mounted on the output shaft. The position information (30 bits) is retained between power cycles.

The multi-turn rotary encoder provides a 14 bits counter on single turn (16,383 counts per turn), and an additional 16 bits turns counter.

Two virtual switches are made available (software switches) for limiting the actuator travel distance between user configurable limits.

By default, the actuator is set to broadcast a status message as a sequence of 17 bytes with a frequency of 10HZ. The frequency of the status message is configurable and stored in the internal EEPROM. Other user configurable parameters are available as well.