Servo - September 2010

NEW PRODUCTS ILLUMINATION

High Power Flexible LED Light Strips

data being transmitted to a device is indicated by the STX connection with a green LED. Serial data being received from a device is indicated by the SRX connection with a blue LED. A VCC status that may be used to show whether a device is powered on is indicated with a red LED. USB status connection is shown with a yellow LED. Price is listed at $12.50.

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Acroname Robotics

Website: www.acroname.com

The NFLS-300X3 series strips from superbright leds.com use high power three-chip 5050SMD LEDs and are great for accent and other special application lighting designs. Available in cool, warm, and natural white color temperatures, these 12 VDC strips produce up to 350 lumens per foot while drawing just 0.3 amps per foot. Other colors available include blue, green, red, and amber. They can be cut in three-LED ( 2 in) segments and have an adhesive backing to easily handle contoured installations.

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INDUSTRIAL CONTROLLERS SuperBrightLEDs

Website: www.superbrightleds.com

SERIAL ADAPTERS

Open Architecture Workcell Controller

EPSON Robots introduces its new RC620+, EPSON’s fourth generation open architecture PC-based workcell controller.

The high performance RC620+ provides ease of use with EPSON RC+ development software. The RC620+ is capable of controlling up to four SCARA robots, three six-axis robots, or two SCARA and two six-axis robots for a total of up to 20 axes of motion from one controller.

Three PCI slots are available for options such as vision systems, fieldbus masters, or third party plug-in cards to expand the RC620+ controller as needed for particular applications. The RC620+ runs a separate CPU dedicated to motion control and real time options including additional I/O, conveyor tracking, expansion I/O, and DeviceNet, Profibus, and EtherNet/IP fieldbus slave options. In addition to these features, the RC620+ controller also provides RC+ Controls software. At the heart of it is EPSON’s Real Time Engine — capable of controlling up to 48 simultaneous tasks. There’s also the SPEL+ Language, and motion and I/O control.

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Serial Adapter

This serial adapter from Acroname Robotics bridges UART serial data to USB as a virtual serial port. One can communicate with a device that requires serial data communication. Driver support for this device is complete across Windows, Mac OS X (including both Intel and PPC), Linux, and many other operating systems.

This connector conforms to the Acroname Serial Interface Standard allowing it to be used with several different devices. The TTL side is also 3.3V tolerant if you are using lower voltage circuits than 5V. Power for the interface bridge connector circuitry is taken from the USB bus. Four LEDs on the adapter help troubleshoot connections between a host computer and a device. Serial