With the launch of Red Drive, Rotalink has driven down the development costs of smallscale DC motor control systems and significantly simplified motion control programming.
Smaller than a credit card, Rotalink’s Red Drive DC motor controller – with motor, gearbox and encoder – requires no complex programming to control all the variables associated with rotational or linear movement. Its simple Windows-based drag-and-drop flowchart style interface uses real world values such as seconds, revolutions and gearbox output rpm to control speed, acceleration, position, dwell etc., and to manage digital I/O connections for interaction with limit switches, sensors, LEDs, relays and similar signals.
Red Drive’s flowchart programming approach eliminates much of the complexity typically associated with motion control systems. Dragging readily understandable flowchart blocks for start, accelerate, compare, wait and so on onto a work area allows program structure to be established within minutes. With a click and drag, blocks are easily moved, added or deleted, repetitive sequences readily identified and grouped into subroutines, and variables manipulated for calculations and loop control. And, with no need to resort to Basic or C, programming is simplified and engineers have a single consistent development environment in which to work.
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