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1 Over Current versus i2t protection [GB/CM]

The I2t protection works as a long time protection and the over-current as an immediate protection. Let's take the over-current protection first. We assume that the over-current value is 4 A for 500 ms. With this setting, a current of 4 A or higher that is…

2 I2t Protection description [GB/CM]

The I2t protection (motor I2t protection) prevents motor damage due to long over-current operation. In order to set this protection, you need to select a point on the I2t motor thermal protection curve, and then input the I2t over-current value and the I2t…

3 Short circuit protection description

The short circuit protection is triggered by a small hardware current sensing circuit, which will act as soon a certain current value is exceeded for a given amount of time (drive dependent and not user configurable - this protection will always disable the…

4 Encoder broken wire protection description [GB]

The iPOS drives family are able to automatically determine encoder failures. This protection is available only for brushless motors with incremental encoder and Halls sensors. The default behavior of the "Encoder broken wire" protection is: disable the power…

5 Over Current protection description [GB/CM]

The over-current protection it is triggered if the motor current remains above the over-current limit for a time interval longer than the over-current time. The maximum value for the over-current limit is set to motor peak current (unless the drive peak current…

6 Integral Limit parameter description [GB]

The "Integral Limit (%)" is the limit for the integral part of a PI or PID controller which is used to eliminate the stationery error (and will manage to do that provided the output of the controller is not saturated). At the beginning of a motion, where…

7 External chopping resistor option description [GB/CM]

As the motor brakes, the kinetic energy stored into the load (the bigger the system inertia, the higher the energy) will flow back to the power supply through the drive (as our drive is a 4-quadrant one, which allows this to happen). Usually the power supply…

8 What can trigger the Control Error protection? [GB]

The control error is a user defined software protection. ERRMAX parameter represents the maximum accepted control error of the most outer loop of the controlled system (i.e. speed or position). If the difference (POSERR/SPDERR) between the reference (TPOS/TSPD)…

9 Brief description of the Drive and Motor protections [GB]

Drive related protections (can be visualized in Drive Info dialog): 1. Over voltage - in case the motor supply voltage exceeds this value the power stage of the drive is disabled 2. Under voltage - the same as over voltage only that it works the other way…

10 Control Error protection description [GB/CM]

The control error protection depends on the control mode: - In position control, it is triggered if the absolute value of the position error remains higher than the position error limit for a time interval longer than the position error time. - In speed control,…