Find your way around this site dedicated to digital servo motors and drives
  Investigating Servo Architectures
 —Pros and Cons
Features and Benefits of
 SSt Servo Systems
Available Systems/Pricing
  Manual & Tool Downloads

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Navigating this Site

This site is intended to satisfy the needs of three audiences:
  1. Experienced servo users who are looking for the latest technology,
  2. Engineers who want to replace stepper motors in their machines to upgrade performance and,
  3. Servo novices who want a thorough overview of servo technology.
As such, it’s rather large (20,000+ words) so to keep you from "getting lost" here are our surfing recommendations:

  For the Servo Savvy:
  For the Servo Novice:

If you are an experienced servo user we would recommend that you first read Investigating Servo Architectures—Pros and Cons. This topic presents new information contrasting traditional servo boards and amplifiers with various types of digital drive architectures, including the SST servo’s true, closed-loop, torque control architecture.
    The Features/Benefits menu would be the next appropriate area to visit. There, you will learn about new state-of-the-art features like Adaptive Inertia Matching Technology (IMT), Regressive Auto Spline (RAS), Anti-Hunt™, low Total Servo Phase Delay (TSPD), Linear Motor capability, true closed-loop Vector Torque Control (with sinewave commutation), etc.
     After you have finished looking at these performance features, you might want to survey the engineering and integration tools available within WorldServo’s SST drives by linking to the QuickSet™ configuration tool and Real-time Monitor Port features (also on the Features/Benefit menu.).
     You may notice that this site focuses on using the SST servo systems in position mode (digital step & direction input) because this mode will give you the best price/performance. However, the SST servo system is also available in a +/-10V analog input version so you can get all the benefits of closed-loop vector torque control, true RMS limiting, sinewave commutation, etc. using a traditional servo control board.

 

Even if you are a servo novice, we would still recommend that you first read Investigating Servo Architectures—Pros and Cons to get an overview of how various servo control options compare and then go to the Features/Benefits menu. Then, rather than jumping straight to features, you will want to focus first on the benefits that you will obtain from using the SST servo.
     Having first reviewed the benefits such as Ultra-smooth Motion, Reduced Wear on Mechanics, Faster Moves and Settling Time, Easy Electrical Integration, etc., you will have a better context for understanding the corresponding features. Each benefit is linked to all of its supporting features (and each feature to the benefits it supports) so you will be able to navigate quickly to find out the information important to your application.