The maxon motor Epos2 50/5 is a small-sized full digital smart motion controller. Due to the flexible and high efficient power stage the Epos2 50/5 drives brushed DC motors with digital encoder as well as brushless EC motors with digital Hall sensors and encoder.

The sinusoidal current commutation by space vector control offers to drive brushless EC motors with minimal torque ripple and low noise. The integrated position-, velocity- and current control functionality allows sophisticated positioning applications. It is specially designed being commanded and controlled as a slave node in the CANopen network. In addition the unit can be operated through any USB or RS-232 communication port.

Product Features

• CANopen profile position-, profile velocity- and homing mode
• Position-, velocity-, current-, master encoder- and step direction mode
• Interpolated position mode (PVT)
• Position regulation with velocity- and acceleration feed-forward
• Sinusoidal and trapezoidal motion profiles
• Suitable for brushed DC motors and brushless EC motors up to 250 W
• 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 USB 2.0 and/or RS-232
• Gateway USB to CAN or 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