
B-63003EN-2/01 Chapter 2 Configuring the 16i/18i/21i 2 - 17
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Find out the mechanics of the system
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gear ratios, screw pitches, etc.
You will need to get this information from the machine tool’s specifications. It should
not be determined by trial and error.
Let’s say that we have the motor coupled to the screw via a 2:1 gearbox and the pitch
of the screw is 10mm. Rewrite this using units! This means that we have:
2 revolutions of the motor
1 turn of the screw
and
movement axis of mm 1
screw theof turn 1
6. Use the system mechanics to calculate
mm
srevolution
.
We need to multiply the units now and line them up so that they cancel to give us
mm
srevolution
.
mm 10
srevolution 2
mm 10
screw of turn 1
screw of turn 1
revsmotor 2
=×
In our system, the axis moves 5mm for every motor revolution.
7. Multiply the result from step 6 with the motor resolution from step 4.
Multiplying the values, we have:
mm
pulses 200,000
revolution
pulses 1,000,000
mm 5
revolution 1
=×
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Plug in values from steps 1 and 7 into eq. 3 to calculate
N
M
Plugging into eq. 3 yields:
M
N
mm
pulses 200,000
mm
pulses 20,000
×=
Solving for the unknowns, we have then, N = 1 and M = 10. These are the values you
would enter into the servo setting screen.