User's Manual

Geo MACRO Drive User and Reference Manual
Appendix D 193
USEFUL NOTES
• Geo MACRO drives are using 2-axis MACRO station CPU’s. They are not the same with the 8-
axis or 16-axis MACRO CPU’s
• Firmware 1.005 and newer can only be downloaded to Geo MACRO drives that use logic board
(603542) revision -105 and above.
• Secondary Encoders are installed into Geo MACRO drives that use logic board (603542) revision
-10A and above.
• Firmware 1.006 gives the user the capability to enable or disable the Motor Over Temperature
Input each axis individually (MS<node,MI100).
• Firmware 1.006 gives the user the capability to disable the second motor node for single axis
units (MS<node,MI100).
• Firmware 1.006 Enables the Encoder Loss Circuitry. Quadrature or Sinusoidal.
• ECO 1629 against 300-603542-10B, Friday, August 19, 2005.
• Firmware 1.007 gives the ability to the user to turn on (5V) and off (0V) the ENCPWR line of the
primary encoder channels, which allows resetting of the encoder.