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11 Oct

Galil’s RIO Pocket PLC Now Available with Two Ethernet Ports

by Galil_LisaW
RIO-47142

On the market for five years, Galil’s RIO Pocket PLC provides a cost-effective, compact and intelligent solution for programmable I/O control. Standard features of the RIO-47xxx series include 32 digital and 16 analog I/O, program memory with multitasking, PID process control loops, timers, counters, web interface, email alerts, datalogging, Ethernet and RS232 ports.

16 Jul

Low-Cost Stepper Drive Option Now Available for DMC-30000 Pocket Motion Controller Series

by Galil_LisaW

Joining the growing family of drive options for the DMC-30000 Pocket Motion Controller Series is the new DMC-30016 Stepper Drive. The DMC-30016 is a single axis motion controller combined with a 1.4A, 30V stepper drive in a cost-effective, compact package.
The DMC-30016 drive operates a two-phase bipolar stepper motor in full-step, half-step, 1/4 step or 1/16 step. It is user configurable from 0.5A to 1.4A per phase in 10mA increments at 12-30VDC. The dimensions of the DMC-30016 controller and drive package are 3.9” x 5.0” x 1.5”, and no external heatsink is required.

16 Jul

Galil Controller Used to Help Paraplegic Surgeon Perform Operations Again

by Galil_MarkM

Every so often, Galil is given the opportunity to support an application that can truly change the life of others. This last spring, Galil was contacted by a group of students from the University of Wisconsin asking for us to help them create SPOT.
SPOT, which stands for “Standing Paraplegic Omni-directional Transport” is a project aimed to help Dr. Garret Cuppels, a 37-year-old orthopedic surgeon, return to the emergency room after a tragic fall in 2010 that damaged the thoracic region of his spine and left him paralyzed from the waist down.
Since the SPOT device is to be used in the emergency room it had a specific set of requirements that other standard wheel chairs could not satisfy:

06 Apr

New Drive Options for DMC-40x0 and DMC-41x3 Multi-axis Controllers

by Galil_MarkM

Galil’s DMC-40x0 Accelera and DMC-41x3 Econo Ethernet motion controllers are now available with additional multi-axis servo and stepper drive options. The AMP-43540 4-axis 600W brushless sine drive is now available in a 2-axis model as the AMP-43520, and the SDM-44040 4-axis stepper drive is available with 2-axis as the SDM-44020. The new 2-axis drive options provide additional cost savings for OEM applications.


 

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ServoTrends June 2017  

  • [Webinar] Closed-Loop Control of Stepper Motors
  • [White Paper] Transconductance vs Voltage Amplifiers
  • [White Paper] Forms of Closed Loop Stepper Control
  • [App Note] Positioning a Stepper Motor Using Encoder Feedback on an Axis with Non-linear Mechanics Announcement
  • Galil 2-day Live Training Coming in March 2017

ServoTrends Feb 2017  

  • [Webinar] Using Raspberry Pi to Create Powerful, Low Cost Solutions with Galil Controllers
  • Galil Now Provides Support for Linux
  • [White Paper] Advanced Applications of Electronic Gearing Part 2
  • Galil 2-day Live Training Coming in March 2017

ServoTrends Oct 2016  

  • Introducing GDK's Scope and Tuner Tools
  • [Application Note] Tuning a Piezomotor DMC-30019 and LEGS Piezoelectric Motor for High Resolution Motion Control
  • Exosent Engineering: Welding Non-Concentric Cylinders
  • [White Paper] Compensating For External Forces in Motion Control Applications

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