Specifications

CHOOSING YOUR SETTINGS
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Choosing Your Motor
Most of your drive’s settings are determined by the motor you select. This chapter assumes that you’ve
already selected the motor and you’re using this chapter to determine the appropriate drive settings. If you
have not selected you motor, then refer to Appendix A: CHOOSING YOUR MOTOR, starting on page 45.
Information in this appendix includes guidelines for sizing your motor, torque curves for all AMCI motors
when attached to the SD17063, and information on determining current settings for non-AMCI motors.
Location of Programming Switches
All of the SD17063’s programmable features are set with DIP switches located on the top of the drive. As
shown in figure 3.2, you gain access to these switches by loosening two screws and rotating the cover out of
the way. Note that the switches are in four blocks of five switches. This manual calls the switch blocks SB1,
SB2, SB3, and SB4, with SB1 nearest the front of the drive. The five switches in each block are labeled ‘1’
through ‘5’ with ‘1’ nearest the front of the drive. Therefore, the third switch in the first block is SB1-3 and
‘SB2-5’ is the fifth switch of the second switch block.
You will also see three potentiometers
towards the back of the drive, next to SB4.
These potentiometers are used to calibrate
the drive at the factory and should not be
adjusted in the field.
With the possible exceptions of the Anti-
Resonance, Anti-Resonance Phase, Current
Loop Gain and Output Waveform switches,
you can set the switches before actually
installing the drive. These features can be
used to fine tune the motor performance, but
changing these settings is usually optional.
The default settings will work in most sys-
tems.
DIP Switch Settings
Figure 3.3 on the following page shows the switch settings for features set by DIP switches SB1 and SB2.
These features are:
h Pulse Train Input (SB1-1)
h Anti-Resonance Enable (SB1-2)
h Anti-Resonance Phase (SB1-3)
h Current Loop Gain (SB1-4&5)
h Current Control (SB2-1)
h Idle Current Reduction (SB2-2&3)
h Output Waveform (SB2-4&5)
Information on setting these DIP switches follows the figure. The only other features set by the switches are
Step Resolution and Output Current, which are covered later in this section.
Figure 3.2 Accessing the DIP Switches
12345
SB1
O
N
12345
SB2
O
N
12345
SB3
O
N
12345
SB4
O
N
2) Rotate cover to
access switches.
1) Loosen these
two screws.
SB2-5
SB1-3