Thread: CIB Industrial Control Interface
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18-04-2011 #1
Anyone ever used the CIB Industrial Control Interface board from Zapp Automation with Mach3 software?
What do people think of the board?
http://www.slidesandballscrews.com/i....html?cPath=54
http://www.cnc2all.com/control-card-eng.html
Cheers
Ant
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19-04-2011 #2
Ant never used that board, but it should not be used with stepper drivers that have opto-isolation as well.
Industrial control interface AKA breakout board
Phil
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20-04-2011 #3
yes it can be used with stepper drivers that have optically isolated inputs.
Any driver that is worth buying has optos built in.Visit Us: www.automationshop.co.uk
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20-04-2011 #4
What is opto-isolation?
Cheers,
Ant
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20-04-2011 #5
Instead of there being a direct electrical connection between the computer and the driver the connection is effectively split with light bridging the gap. The opto-isolator uses an LED and a phototransitor to sense the light. If there is a high voltage on the motor side of the board it cannot reach the other side since there is a physical gap (within reason).
Google it...
You could get round the 'problem' of having both the driver and interface board isolated by buffering it - few logic gates, maybe not even that. Or even pop open the driver and bypass the isolation with a bit of wire! Kind of defeats the object of buying it ready made though, and you're increasing propagation delay which may/may not be significant.
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20-04-2011 #6
I was going to use these stepper drive units. It does mention opto-isolation. Will they be ok?
http://www.slidesandballscrews.com/2...ml?cPath=44_97
Also whats the reasoning that I can't use the opto-isolation. I've googled it but seems to be no-reasoning. In what solution would you use opto-isolation?
Thanks
Ant
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20-04-2011 #7
They work fine with the CIB.
Visit Us: www.automationshop.co.uk
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20-04-2011 #8
I wasn't thinking last night, disregard what I said earlier. I posted this diagram somewhere on the forum a while ago which shows how to do it:
http://www.mycncuk.com/forums/showth...ll=1#post19932
see post #22
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20-04-2011 #9
Connecting the CIB to any of our drivers is very simple.
Connect pin 9 (5V+) to the positive side of the Clock, direction and enable and then connect pin 5 to the Puls, Pin 3 to the Direction and pin 1 to the enable (Free-)Visit Us: www.automationshop.co.uk
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