Product Description:

The 105-050010 motion control card is manufactured by Pacific Scientific and belongs to the 105 Motion Control Cards series. Designed for cabinet-mounted installation, the board interfaces between a host controller and servo amplifiers to coordinate motor motion in industrial automation equipment. It combines trajectory generation, discrete I/O handling, and communication links so a single card can manage positioning tasks on assembly lines, packaging machines, or material-handling workstations. This arrangement lets the card process motion commands locally while passing operating data to the higher-level machine control.

It uses a fully digital architecture, so loop calculations, signal conditioning, and interlock functions are executed numerically. The card supports single-axis or multi-axis operation while accepting 4 dedicated control inputs and 5 control outputs for direct machine commands. For custom sequencing, the controller can map 16 programmable inputs and 12 programmable outputs through the ServoBASIC Plus language stored in 24K of onboard user memory. Fault data is forwarded over a 4-bit code, allowing upstream controllers to identify drive alarms without constant polling. Communication for setup or monitoring is available through either RS-232 or RS-485/422 at 9600 baud, which supports point-to-point or multidrop cabling.

Power interfacing is handled through a bus feed of 120/240 Vac, and the card can command external amplifiers rated for up to 120 A of phase current. Those amplifiers use an IGBT PWM topology that switches at 20 kHz, which helps reduce audible noise while supporting fast torque response. High-speed coordination between multiple Pacific Scientific drives is enabled by the PACLAN link, which exchanges motion data at 2.5 Mbaud. This communication path helps linked axes share timing information during synchronized motion and keeps command updates moving quickly across the drive network.