Chapter 3 - Connecting and Installing Your Impulse
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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
Indexer
Impulse
961/962
RS232C
RS485
Digital Inputs (4)
Digital Output (1)
Fault Output
Step/Dir/Shutdown
or
Single or
Multi-Axis
PC
or
PLC
I/O TX RX
Unit #1
Unit #99
RS232C
1 - 7 Stored Moves
PC
or
PLC
RS485
Unit #1
Unit #32
I/O