The Flex-6 Nano is a powerful DIN rail mounted stand-alone flexible and compact Motion Coordinator. Its on board memory can be expanded to 32 GByte using a Micro SD card.
The Flex-6 Nano can be used as a stand-alone controller or can “plug” straight into our EtherCATFlexslice System allowing expansion of the system to include servo and stepper drives, I/O and other functionality that conforms to the EtherCAT standard.
Trio’s Flexslice input/output modules provide a robust, high speed and flexible solution for both motion control and general automation. EtherCAT cycle times down to 125μsecs are supported and the bus coupler uses EBUS technology to bring all the sub-modules on to the EtherCAT network with no degradation in performance.
EtherCAT slave nodes (Flexslice Modules) are connected via the Flexslice EBUS and the EtherCAT connector. Total slave connections can be up to 128 nodes including I/O and complex devices.
More “stations” (EtherCAT linked blocks of Flexslice Modules) can be added to the network using the second EtherCAT port on the P600 to connect to one or more P366 Flexslice Couplers.
Highlights
- Dual core 1GHZ Arm Processor
- 2 – 64 Axes
- 1 GBit DDR3 Memory
- Memory can be Expanded with a Micro SD Card
- 1 GBit Fast Serial Flash Memory to Store Data Such as Programs, VRs and Tables
- Built in Retention RTC
- Built in EBUS Coupler for Direct Access to Trio’s Flexslice Slaves
- Cycle Time as Low as 125us!
- Field Programmable with Motion Perfect
- High Performance, Flexible Topology and Simple Configuration
- Bus Cycle Time Synchronised with Motion Coordinator Servo Period
- Ethercat Protocol to Individual Modules Using the EBUS System
- I/O Functions Tightly Synchronised to Motion Using Ethercat Distributed Clocks
- Practical Push-In Connector Options – No Break Out Required
- Clip-Together Design With ‘Quick Release’ Locks For Mechanical Integrity
Options
The Flex-6 Nano can be purchased with the axes factory loaded or as options.
- P600 = 2 Axes
- P601 or P600 + 1 x P912 = 4 Remote Axes
- P602 or P600 + 2 x P912 = 8 Remote Axes
- P603 or P600 + 3 x P912 = 16 Remote Axes
- P604 or P600 + 4 x P912 = 32 Remote Axes
- P605 or P600 + 5 x P912 = 64 Remote Axes
IO Expansion modules
- All
- Axes 001-003
- Axes 004-005
- Axes 006-008
- Axes 009-016
- Axes 017-032
- Axes 033-064
- EtherCAT
- FlexSlice
- IO analogue IP
- IO analogue OP
- IO digital IP
- IO digital OP
- servo axis
- stepper axis
Flex-6 Nano (P600, P601, P602, P603, P604 and P605)
FlexSlice 16 digital inputs, NPN (P377)
FlexSlice 16 digital inputs, PNP (P372)
FlexSlice 16 digital outputs, NPN (P376)
FlexSlice 16 digital outputs, PNP (P371)
FlexSlice 3 Axis Step Pulse (P375)
FlexSlice 8 Analogue Inputs (P379)
FlexSlice 8 Analogue Outputs (P378)
FlexSlice EtherCAT IO Coupler (P366)
