Analog In¶
Analog sensors usually output a voltage or a resistance that can be interpreted by the firmware. When the output is a voltage, the signal can be directly read by the analog input, but if it’s a resistance (e.g. resistance temperature detectors), a voltage divider must be used to generate a voltage equivalent to the resistance.
Important
If your servo drive does not incorporate a voltage divider itself, you must attach one separately.
SOMANET servo drives come with a default configuration for the analog inputs that can be alternated on request.
For details please refer to SOMANET Node’s Analog In configuration or to SOMANET Circulo’s Analog In configuration .
Using differential inputs for single-ended sensors¶
If you want to attach a single-ended encoder but the voltage range fits only to the differential ports, you may connect the signal to the + pin of the Analog In and the Ground to the - pin.
Note
In this case you will lose half of your analog input range.
Nonlinear conversion of an analog voltage¶
Analog Input Scaling: Nonlinear conversion of an analog voltage using a 5th order polynomial function.
