ステッピングモーター制御モジュール

Hi, we bought three 2-channel MST602 to control two NanoMax stage (MAX311) with six DRV208 Stepper Motor Actuators. The rack system is MMR602. Now the problem is that only two MST602 are connected and shown in the Kinesis Software. We found that pin 8 of the Motor I/O Connector was stuck due to the probe. However, according to the pin diagram, pin 8 is not in use. We are unsure whether this is an issue. I look forward to receiving your reply and I can show you the picture of the equipment. Thank you! Best regards, Xu

Hi, We recently bought three 2-channel step motor driver module(MST602) and three 2-channel piezo driver module(MPZ601) to connect with NanoMax stage(MAX683/m). We downloaded APT software to connect with our lab PC, but there are two problems. 1. When I'm trying to associate stage using APT config, channel setting is disabled. So I can't associate channel 2s with our NanoMax stage. (And in APT user, all the channel 2 shows "stage : unknown" message.) 2. Piezo controller modules are not shown on the Motor list. Is there no problem if I use piezo module without associating the stage? I look forward to receiving your reply. Best regards, Daehan Choi

Dear Sir or Madam, We have on set of MAX601 with piezos and step actuators, They're so old (I don't remember exactly but they may date from 2009) that the controllers are CVI/Melles Griot. Also we've recently purchased an additional pair of MAX601 with built-in piezos and step actuators for an additional measurement setup. We control the platforms from Matlab using an in-house program to command the axis with a wireless game pad. The problem is that according Mathworks they are going to discontinue the support of ActiveX controls in future versions of Matlab. Thus, being the correspondent functions (as for example actxcontrol) no longer available. Would you kindly provide me the information needed to handle the platforms from Matlab with an alternative method? Because despite the anouncement from Mathworks (which was included in the 2019b release of Matlab) you still recommend the use of ActiveX controls to handle the platforms from Matlab. Regards, José

Doh! It might have assisted, if I had included my e-mail address for my previous post! Kind Regards. - Les.

Hi. I’m utilising LabVIEW to control the following items, 3 x MST602, installed into a MMR601, along with a MAX604/M 6-Axis stage. Currently, I don’t have the physical hardware available, hence I’ve configured the Kinesis simulator with two BSC103 3 Channel Motor Controllers, these controllers in themselves are marked as ‘obsolete’, but they are the nearest I can find, in relation to the MST602 APT Stepper Motor Control Modules. Anyway, moving on from this issue with the Kinesis simulator product selection, I can get the Kinesis User GUI software to satisfactory communicate with the Kinesis simulator. However, when I configure LabVIEW to utilise the Kinesis software provided .dll to implement .NET control ‘calls’, I get a reported error of “No Suitable Devices Found”, consequently checking the Kinesis simulator, there isn’t any connection activity, which you do see, when the Kinesis User GUI software connects to the Kinesis simulator. So I’ve found a similar issue on the NI forum (https://knowledge.ni.com/KnowledgeArticleDetails?id=kA00Z0000019RKySAM) , and have made the users suggested changes, but to no avail. So my query is, as I’m wanting to use the Kinesis simulator, and not the actual hardware platform, do I have to invoke a connection to the simulator first, prior to attempting to establish a connection from “BenchtopStepperControl.NET”? I note that there is a SimulationManager (within “Thorlabs.MotionControl.DeviceManagerCLI.dll”), but it doesn’t contain any public constructors, so it doesn’t appear that I can access the Kinesis simulator in that way. So if you could kindly provide me with a detail explanation of the procedure, or an example of LabVIEW code that would facilitate the utilisation of the Kinesis simulator, I would be most grateful. Thanks and Kind Regards. – Les.

Dear Sir/Madam, Could you send me an older version of the APT software so that I can install it in my Windows XP system? Thanks! Best regards, Guozhen

Are you only support Windows platforms? And than only via ActiveX? Please make a simple dll (.so) shared libary next time.

Hello, do the auto alignment features of the MMR601/MNA601/R work equally well (at all?) with the MST602 stepper modules. I need the extra travel/flexibility of stepper motor/drives. Thanks, Jonathan

Response from Tim at Thorlabs to Michal: Thank you for your inquiry. All of the Thorlabs Rack System Modules require the use of the MMR601 for operation.

Hello, It is possible to operate MST601 unit without having MMR601 Rack system? Best regards, Michal Nejbauer

Response from Javier at Thorlabs to i.abbadi: Thank you for your reply.It looks like you can use the SetAbsMovPos and MoveAbsolute commands. I was not able to contact you directly via e-mail regarding your last inquiry. Please contact us at techsupport@thorlabs.com so that we can discuss your application.

hi , thanks for your response , well i want to command the rotation of two motors at the same time ;im looking for the instruction how to set its position without turning or make a boolean command to move the motors after setting there positions before , im using a BSC102 and the motors are connected to its channels

Response from Javier at Thorlabs to i.abbadi: Thank you very much for contacting us. The LLSetGetDigOPs method sets or gets the status of the digital outputs on the APT unit associated with the ActiveX control instance. If the bSet parameter is set to TRUE, the method sets the output state. If bSet is set to FALSE, the method returns the output state. I will contact you with more details about this method and I will also like to get additional info about your application. You can also find more information in the Help section of the APT software: Start > All Programs > Thorlabs > APT > Help > APT Server Help > Programming Guide.

hi,we have the MST601 and we could not control it by Labview. can we have more information about the LLSetGetDigOPs commands?

Response from Javier at Thorlabs to jouko.viitanen: the User I/O connections of the MST601 are intended for use with ActiveX compatible platforms such as Visual Basic, LabVIEW, etc. You would use the low level commands LLSetGetDigOPs and LLSetGetHostDigOPs, which talk to the motherboard I/O instead of the separate card I/Os. I will contact you directly with more information about these commands.

We have your MST601 stepper motor controller in the MMR rack. The controller works ok. I would also like to use the the 4 digital output bits available from the "User I/O" connector of the MST601. However, they are not available from the GUI panel, and I did not find any hints from the APT configurator utility, if some other driver needs to be installed in order to be able to switch the bits on/off in the APT user interface.