Product Description:

The SS2000PCi-2 is a motion-control drive card produced by Kollmorgen within the SS2000 SLO-SYN Drives series. Installed in an industrial PC, it generates command signals for stepper or servo stages, letting automation systems embed closed-loop positioning inside a host computer instead of using a standalone rack unit. In factory equipment, it synchronizes axis movement with digital and analog process data, acting as the interface between higher-level software and the field devices that move product or tooling.

The card draws only 0.5 A from the backplane, so heat load on densely populated systems stays low. For analog command inputs, it maintains an accuracy of ±0.3 V max, operates across a bandwidth of 100 Hz max, digitizes with 10 bits of resolution, and samples at no less than 500 Hz min. These figures show how precisely external transducers can influence velocity or torque loops. An onboard CPU clocked at 16-bit 16 MHz executes trajectory calculations and handles interrupt-driven I/O. Eight sinking or sourcing logic inputs and four outputs share that processor time, while matching counts of optically isolated inputs and outputs provide higher current switching; the opto channels can supply up to 250 mA, whereas the logic outputs are limited to 20 mA. A 250 V, 2 A time-delay fuse protects the incoming supply.

Up to 38.4 kbaud of host serial traffic is supported, and a daisy-chain mode links as many as 32 cards for multi-axis platforms. Encoder feedback is accepted at rates up to 500 kHz/ch, and the quadrature decoder processes position data at 2 Mcounts/s, helping maintain tight following error even at high motor speeds. The encoder port supplies +5 V DC at 100 mA, so most incremental sensors can be powered directly. These features allow the board to coordinate motion with sensors, limit switches, and pneumatics in a single deterministic cycle.