The UCC AI provides the interface between the CMM controller and a third party servo power analogue amplifier (which provides power to the CMM motors)
Required for large higher voltage CMM systems which may require motor voltages in excess of 80 V or motor currents in excess of 10 A
These voltages and currents are not supported by current Renishaw SPA products
Features
Supports third party servo power analogue interface amplifiers
± 10 V differential analogue SPA command
SPA control I/O
The UCC AI can automatically adjust the supply voltage to encoder readheads (to compensate for long scale cables)
Up to four CMM axes can be handled by the UCC AI
Up to five CMM axes can be handled by a dual UCC AI setup
Some 3rd party temperature compensation boxes can be interfaced to the UCC AI using the RS232 interface
Probe interface (PICS)
MCU interface
Supporting incremental and absolute encoders
CMM machine input / output, including:
• Air solenoid
• Brakes (for each axis)
• Z-axis crash status
• Travel limit warnings (both inner and outer limits for each axis)
• Air status
• 13 un-committed I/O (6 input and 7 output) that can be customised by the user