Installation guide

Mint™ v4 Advanced Programming Guide

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This Mint v4 Advanced Programming Guide accompanies the Mint v4 Programming Guide. It covers

the advanced Mint features:

• Spline moves on NextMove

• Hold to Analog whereby the position is held on the basis of an analog feedback signal.

• DAC monitoring, allows a DAC output to output values such as axis velocity or following

error.

• Data capture. This feature is used by the Mint WorkBench. This manual describes the

keywords used for data capture.

• Current limiting. MintDrive supports I

t, full details of the keywords are described.

• NextMove supports analog input errors. Analog inputs can be assigned to an axis. If there go

out of a programmable range, then an error will be generated.

• Leadscrew compensation allows a leadscrew or ballscrew real positions to be mapped to axis

positions.

• Backlash compensation.

• NextMove PC expansion.

This manual is for advanced Mint users only. If you are unfamiliar with Mint then please refer the Mint

v4 Programming Guide.