A customer wants to know if he can use mixed encoders on the MC508.

For example, Axes 0 to 5 are Endat absolute encoders and 6 and 7 are incremental encoders.

Answer:

By using the ATYPE command you can set any of the 8 axes to be either incremental or absolute EnDat in any order.

example:

ATYPE AXIS(0) = 76 ' incremental encoder input

ATYPE AXIS(1) = 76

ATYPE AXIS(2) = 76

ATYPE AXIS(3) = 76

ATYPE AXIS(4) = 76

ATYPE AXIS(5) = 76

ATYPE AXIS(6) = 87 ' EnDat encoder input

ATYPE AXIS(7) = 87

You can put the setting into MC_CONFIG or have them in a program that runs at power up.