Glossary

µs

Microsecond, which is 0.000001 seconds.

A

Ampere. The unit of electrical current.

Amplifier

Servo Drive.

ARMS

Ampere (RMS).Root Mean Square.

AWG

American Wire Gauge.

Baud Rate

The number of binary bits transmitted per second on a serial communications link such as RS-232. (1 character is usually 10 bits.)

Check Box

In a dialog box, a check box is a small box that the user can turn “On” or “Off” with the mouse. When “On” it displays an X in a square; when “Off” the square is blank. Unlike option buttons, check boxes do not affect each other; any check box can be “On” or “Off” independently of all the others.

Configuration

The user-created application. It can be saved as a disk file or downloaded to configure the FM-3. It includes all the user- defined setup, assignments and programs.

CRC

Cyclical Redundancy Check.

Dialog Box

A dialog box is a window that appears in order to collect information from the user. When the user has filled in the necessary information, the dialog box disappears.

DIN Rail

Deutsche Industrie Norm Rail

DLL

In Microsoft Window, a Dynamic Link Library contains a library of machine-language procedures that can be linked to programs as needed at run time.

Downloading

The transfer of a complete set of parameters from an FM to a drive.

Drive

Servo drive or amplifier.

EEPROM

An EEPROM chip is an Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory; that is, its contents can be both recorded and erased by electrical signals, but they do not go blank when power is removed.

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