Hi
I am working on position control of DC motor. I am using encoder module for that. But I am not able to understand how to read data from the encoder module. I tried creating variables, but it does not read any data. I went through the datasheet, still couldn’t figure it. Any sort of help would be really appreciated.
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Hello Anshuljaswal,
Once you have the encoder module read into the program in PLCnext Engineer, you can access the configuration by double clicking on the module in the Plant. This will populate the main window giving you Settings, Parameters, and Data List tabs at the top of the window. In the Data List tab, you must link the variables you created to the process data items like Status word or Status_latch for example. If that is not done, there is no way for the PLC to know where to store the encoder data.
There is a description of the process data items available on the data sheet.
I hope this helps. Let me know if you have any issues with that!