Maxon motor AG specializes in the development, manufacturing and sales of high quality drive components and systems under the trade mark maxon motor. All key components are manufactured in-house with custom design machinery. Our most important key technologies are three winding processes, motor manufacture and gearhead production as well as electronics, magnetic encoder components and the application of high-tech ceramics.

The maxon motor control Epos is a modular-designed digital positioning system suitable for DC and EC motors. The performance range of these compact positioning controllers starts at a few Watt and goes up to 700 W.

A variety of operating modes means that all kinds of drive and automation systems can be flexibly assembled using positioning, speed and current regulation. The built-in CANopen interface allows networking to multiple axis drives, with additional I/O modules and online commanding by CANopen master units.

In combination with a motor from maxon motor, these controllers are perfectly suited for highest dynamic motion. In combination with an Epos P a standalone multiple axes system can be started-up easily.

Product Features

• CANopen profile position-, profile velocity- and homing mode
• Position-, velocity-, current-, master encoder- and step direction mode
• Position regulation with velocity- and acceleration feed-forward
• Sinusoidal and trapezoidal motion profiles
• Suitable for brushed DC motors and brushless EC motors
• Sinusoidal and block commutation for EC motors
• Smart multi-purpose digital I/Os configurable as: positive and negative limit switch, home switch, position marker, enable and ready output
• General purpose digital I/Os and analog inputs
• Communication via CAN and/or RS-232
• Gateway RS-232 to CAN for service
• Built-in data recorder, auto tuning of controller parameters
• Windows-based Graphical User Interface for set-up, start-up and auto-tuning free of charge
• IEC 1131 libraries for different PLCs free of charge
• Windows DLL free of charge

Product Family

• EPOS 24/1 9 V to 24 V, 1 A cont., 2 A max. current
• EPOS 24/5 11 V to 24 V, 5 A cont., 10 A max. current
• EPOS2 50/5 11 V to 50 V , 5 A cont., 10 A max. current
• EPOS 70/10 11 V to 70 V, 10 A cont., 25 A max. current

Applications

• Automation & robotics
• Medical equipment
• Electronic production
• Packing equipment
• Materials handling
• Machine tools