Lenze Smart Products for chain and roller conveyors

Lenze Smart Products keep the world moving – and your conveyor By using our Lenze Smart Products, you benefit from a drive solution that has been tried and tested a thousand times in horizontal materials-handling systems, achieving your goals in a faster, safer way. You receive turnkey solutions tailored to your specific tasks – quickly … Continue reading Lenze Smart Products for chain and roller conveyors

Ride Hard Ride Long – Wonders of the Blue Highways

Tales from the Dead: Interesting Cemetery Finds  by Jeff Johnson Travelling the small highways of this country gives you an opportunity to see things bypassed by the interstates.  With credit to William Least Heat Moon, blue highways represent the two lane highways on the old AAA maps.  This series is to share some of the … Continue reading Ride Hard Ride Long – Wonders of the Blue Highways

LCC-10 Voice-Coil Interface, ASCII over Serial Communication

I was delighted to find that writing a custom ASCII over Serial protocol was just as easy as the Ethernet variant.  SMAC’s LCC-10 has a list of variables that can be read from or written to that grant complete control of its operation via an RS232 Serial or CANopen interface.  I was able to setup … Continue reading LCC-10 Voice-Coil Interface, ASCII over Serial Communication