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Product ReleaseMR200 Replacement Feedback Transducers For CNC Machines
 Micronor's MR200 series Feedback Transducers are based on the company's proprietary Modular Cam Switch System. This proven technology provides an efficient and cost-effective way to engineer plug-and-play feedback transducers for new equipment designs as well as servicing machinery no longer supported by the original equipment manufacturers. Feedback units can incorporate any combination of encoders, resolvers, potentiometers, tachometers, rotary limit switches as well as specialized interface electronics (4-20mA or ±10V analog outputs, serial interface, CAN, etc.). These feedback components are readily integrated with precision low or zero backlash gearing - in application-specific, compatible packaging. Feedback transducers are mission critical components of precision CNC machinery - designed to provide highly accurate and reliable position, speed and overrun control of linear or rotary motion in high performance servo motor drive systems. Machine applications exist across many industries; including CNC machine centers, industrial robotics, food processing, medical products, packaging, heavy manufacturing, paper converting and military/aerospace. MR200 series Feedback Transducers can be designed as plug-and-play replacements for obsolete units formerly manufactured by Baumer, Crouzet, Eucron and Micron. These transducers are can be found in machinery manufactured by a large number of OEM CNC equipment manufacturers; including Bridgeport, Cincinnati Lamb, Giddings & Lewis and Kingsbury - to name just a few. Micronor offers a range of standard as well as custom engineered feedback solutions. User quantities can range from one to thousands - there are no minimum quantity requirements. Scan the standard product examples available on www.micronor.com as well as contact Micronor directly with your feedback requirements. About Micronor Micronor is a leading supplier of reliable and rugged components for industrial automation and process control industries. Motion control products include encoders, resolvers, rotary limit switches, geared feedback transducers, cam timers, motorized potentiometers, manual pulse generators and ergonomic handheld pendant stations. Micronor was founded in 1968 and has regional headquarters in both the United States and Europe. |
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Micronor’s new MR314 ZapFREE™ High Resolution Fiber Optic Rotary Encoder was designed for large drive and rotary shaft applications requiring EMI immunity, higher resolution (1024ppr) and the mounting convenience of a traditional hollow shaft encoder package. There are no integral electronics within the encoder housing and the all-optical design requires just a single optical fiber connection – the utmost in simplicity, reliability and ease of installation. The MR314’s totally passive design outperforms conventional optical and magnetic rotary encoders over a wide range of harsh and/or hazardous environments: wide extended operating range (-60°C/+150°C); outdistances copper cable; intrinsically safe and ATEX-compliant; immune to EMI/RFI and ground loops; unaffected by high magnetic fields; and radiation resistant. Special versions can be easily engineered for thermal-vac environments.
This new Micronor product provides a simple and inexpensive solution for automating existing systems controlled by manually-operated potentiometers, rheostats or rotary cam switches. Motor Pots may not seem like a sexy control product but they fulfill a wonderful niche in process control! They are simple to use and easy to set up. No computers required or software to write. Easy to maintain and never obsolete. The user-specified potentiometers provide absolute positional feedback information or function as a variable resistor in an analog control or bridge circuit. The motor pot provides a smooth uniform ramp throughout its timing cycle. Rotary limit switches are programmed (via cams) to electrically control events (or provide status) at pre-stages. A few common applications include ramping up the field current of a DC motor or controlling the start-up of a generator.
Micronor’s MR310 ZapFREE Remote Encoder Interface (REI) Module is the system interface end of the ZapFREE Fiber Optic Rotary Encoder system – for motion control applications in harsh and hazardous environments.
Micronor’s new MR312 ZapFree Incremental Rotary Encoder (patent pending) is the world’s first commercially-available, entirely passive encoder for rotation sensing applications. There are no integral electronics within the encoder housing and the all-optical design requires just a single optical fiber connection – the utmost in simplicity, reliability and ease of installation. The MR312 offers immunity to lightning and atmospheric static that would “zap” conventional encoders; outdistances copper cable by allowing link lengths to 1000 meters (3280 feet); its inert nature proves ideal for use in hazardous and explosive environments; and its intrinsic EMI/RFI resistance allows for safe and reliable operation in and around medical equipment and other “noisy” industrial environments.
Extends Reach Between Controller and Encoder
Micronor’s new MR121 Encoder Cable is guaranteed to solve nagging ground loop and interference problems in motion control systems. The product uses Micronor’s ZapFREE technology which employs the use of fiber optic technology within the cable assembly, but in a manner completely transparent to the user. The MR121 product looks and functions like a standard electrical encoder cable. The equipment operator simply disconnects the existing controller-to-sensor connections and replaces them with corresponding MR121 ZapFREE Encoder Cables. No engineering redesign is required or needed.
