Based on PMD's high performance Magellan™ Motion Processor, ION Digital Drives provide CAN bus and serial communications, and accept commands over a network to control trajectory generation, position loop, current loop and other advanced motion control features. The ION controls a 3-phase brushless motor using field oriented control or sinusoidal commutation. User selectable profiling modes include S-curve, trapezoidal, velocity contouring, electronic gearing and pulse & direction. Other features include hardware performance trace, on-the-fly profile changes, and PLC-style inputs and outputs.

"ION 3000 is another milestone in PMD's plans to expand our digital drive offering, enabling our OEM design customers to select high performance intelligent motion drives at a wider power range for automation applications. The system integration requirements of motion control continue to move toward intelligent networked modules that offer faster design times when bringing complex and critical motion applications to market. The demands of integration, power, density, cost, and network connectivity are all found in the ION product line resulting in overall performance and design cost value," said Chuck Lewin, President and CEO, Performance Motion Devices, Inc.

ION 3000 Features:

• Uses PMD's advanced Magellan Motion Control IC and Enhanced instruction set
• Complete single axis motion module, all digital drive
• DC brush, brushless DC and step / microstepping motor versions
• CAN bus and serial communications
• S-curve, trapezoidal, velocity contouring, pulse & direction and electronic gearing profiles
• 3000 W power rating
• Up to 15 Amps continuous and 30 Amps peak
• 20 -195 volt single power source
• High-efficiency MOSFETs
• Selectable 20kHz or 40kHz PWM frequency
• 102 µsec servo loop rate
• Auxiliary encoder input supports gearing & dual loop applications
• Position and current loops
• Field oriented control
• Sinusoidal commutation
• Stall detection & auto current reduction
• Includes Pro-Motion, C-Motion and VB-Motion software
• Separately programmable acceleration and deceleration value changes on-the-fly
• Advanced PID filter with velocity and acceleration feedforward
• Programmable dual biquad filter
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