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Motor Drives

The word 'drive', when used in the context of electric motors is often only associated with servo, brushless or stepper motors and these tend to be seen as relatively complex devices.

In many applications, a much more straightforward, programmable, and yet still versatile, drive and motor combination will often better suit the needs of the task.

Speed, position, and torque can all be controlled with relatively simple drives offering repeatable indexing, accurate speed holding, torque limiting and other more advanced features. These are often alongside an integrated multi I/O board for logic control and signalling to other external devices.

The standard brushed DC motor drive cards from Electromen offer control of speed, direction, current, and position - they are flexible, easy to use, cost effective and even the entry level models provide resettable over-current protection which can avoid incurring unnecessary service calls to reset trips.

We also stock intelligent drives from Technosoft - these are highly customisable stand-alone motion controllers for precise dynamic control of all motor types. The control characteristics can be loaded into the microcontroller software on the device and facilitate 'distributed intelligence' within a more advanced control system.

Other drives from OEM are available from Minimotor, Crouzet and Panasonic to suit various other types of motors and applications.

Common applications:
  • Brushed DC motor control - basic over current trip to full speed, direction, and current protection.
  • Conveyors - speed control easily adjusted with potentiometer or remote input.
  • Indexing machines - move a set distance every time a signal is given.
  • Linear actuator drive - Protect the motor against running into a dead stop.
  • Lifting platforms - synchronise two DC gear motors to stop crabbing motion.
Electromen EM241C motor drive for brushed DC motors

For Brushed DC Motors

These Electromen motor drive cards provide control of speed, direction, current, and position for brushed DC motors, with current handling up to 100A continuous and a supply voltage range of 12-48Vdc All drives offer current limiting for safety, motor protection and system control, and the programmable options are highly customisable and easy to set up and tailor to their target application
Electromen EM-316 motor drive for brushless DC motor

For Brushless DC Motors

These Electromen motor drive cards provide control of speed, direction and torque (limited by current) for brushless DC motors with current handling to 40A continuous and a supply voltage range of 12-48Vdc All drives offer current limiting for safety, motor protection and system control, and the programmable options are highly customisable and easy to set up and tailor to their target application
Minimotor miniaction inverter drive and digital drive

For AC Motors

Minimotor miniaction inverter drive and digital drive

For Brushless AC Motors

Electromen EM-165 DC motor positioning drive

For Positional Control of Brushed DC Motors With Feedback

These Electromen motor drive cards provide positional control of brushed DC motors with pulse and potentiometer feedback, current handling to 15A continuous and a supply voltage range of 12-32Vdc All drives offer current limiting for safety, motor protection and system control, and the programmable options are highly customisable and easy to set up and tailor to their target application
Actuonix LAC drive board

For DC Linear Actuators

These motor drive cards from Electromen and Actuonix are ideally suited to linear actuator applications and provide full control over speed, direction for brushed DC motors with current handling to 50A continuous and a supply voltage range of 12-48Vdc All drives offer current limiting for safety, motor protection and system control, and the programmable options are highly customisable and easy to set up and tailor to their target application
Electromen EM-314  motor drive for stepper motors

For Stepper Motors

These Electromen stepper motor drive cards offer micro stepping, acceleration and deceleration ramps, speed presets and Modbus communication with current handling to 6A continuous and a supply voltage range of 12-24Vdc The programmable options are highly customisable and easy to set up and tailor to their target application.

For Intelligent Motion Control

A leader in the motion control field - Technosoft offer a wide range of freely programmable intelligent servo controllers, they are compact, high-power-density devices that provide stand-alone programmable motion control and can sit outside of the main PLC to provide ‘distributed intelligence’ to a control system Their latest intelligent drives offer precise control for the position, speed, and torque control and can used with all main motor technologies - DC brushed, brushless, stepper and AC induction motors.

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