Advantech APAX-5202P motion master module

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The APAX-5202P motion master module is fully compatible with the APAX-5570 and APAX-5571 PAC controllers to provide an AMONet motion control solution in various motion control applications, such as LED, solar and LCD manufacturing process.

Users can choose the company’s AMONet slave modules, AMAX-2240 series and AMAX-2750SY series. The former is a four-axis AMONet motion slave module for Panasonic, Mitsubishi and Yaskawa servo motors, the latter are 32-ch isolated digital input/output slave module.

To fulfil the needs of motion control, the slave modules provide various functions, and standard industrial DIN rail-mounting design makes it easy to distribute them in the field.

The APAX-5202P master collects information from slave modules and publishes the information to its PAC controller.

The APAX-5202P PCI interface card supports two independent RS485 master rings with an RJ45 phone jack and a readable LED diagnostic display. One APAX-5202P module can support a maximum of 128 AMONet RS485 slave modules, meaning that each ring can control up to 2048 I/O points, 256 axes or a combination of I/O points and axes for motion control.

The 5202P directly transfers data between the host and its slaves without any operations in between. Using a daisy-chain network configuration, each ring supports a transfer rate of up to 20 Mbps over a maximum distance of 100 m.

The communication between master and slave is based on a customised RS485 solution that saves wires, covers a long distance, supports high-speed communication and has time-deterministic features. The communication interface between master and PAC is accomplished by memory mapping.