Chapter 3 - Connecting and Installing Your Impulse

Chapter 3 - Connecting and Installing Your Impulse

The purpose of this chapter is to provide information that will help you connect and install your Impulse drive in its intended application.

The Impulse drive easily interfaces with a PC, PLC, Step & Direction Motion Controller, or IDC keypad. Block diagrams of several Impulse-based applications are shown below.

Typical Impulse Applications

 

 

 

PC

 

 

 

or

 

 

 

Keypad

 

 

 

Impulse

 

 

 

RS232C

 

 

 

or

 

 

961/962

RS485

 

 

 

 

 

Indexer

 

 

 

Single or

Digital Inputs (4)

 

 

Digital Output (1)

 

 

Multi-Axis

 

 

Fault Output

 

 

 

 

 

 

Step/Dir/Shutdown

 

PC

 

 

 

or

 

 

 

PLC

 

 

I/O

TX RX

 

 

 

RS232C

 

 

 

1 - 7 Stored Moves

 

 

 

Unit #1

Unit #99

 

PC

 

 

 

or

 

 

 

PLC

 

 

 

I/O

RS485

 

 

 

 

 

 

Unit #1

Unit #32

 

 

 

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Impulse PCW-5181 user manual Connecting and Installing Your Impulse, Typical Impulse Applications