Pacific Scientific: Small-footprint drives

Pacific Scientific (Rockford, IL) PC3400 brushless servo drives have a small footprint that makes them especially applicable for packaging, printing, and labeling applications.

Aug 31, 2001

Power ranges from 2.5 to 20 amps and up to 7.6 kW continuous power. Onboard expandable programmable I/O has 6 inputs and 2 outputs for high-speed gearing and registration control. Accepts resolver, encoder, or Hall feedback. Drives are UL, CUL, and CE compliant.

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