Description

The dark wheel consists of the mechanical wheel and the DarkWheelMotor (a motor and a limit switch board with Hall sensor). The magnet is glued on the wheel. The motor and the limit switch board are connect via a DB9 connector to the StepperMotorAdaptorBox. The StepperMotorAdaptorBox just routes the DarkWheel signals to the MoCon, without any conditioning.

List of devices of this kind

Name Serial NumberSorted descending Location
Dark Wheel #02 02 LgswUnitSx
Dark Wheel #01 01 LgswUnitDx

Documentation

The motor is a RS Components code 5350366 (data sheet: rs5350366.pdf).

The pinout of the DarkWheelMotor to the StepperMotorAdaptorBox is the following: Schermata_2013-05-21_alle_18.32.18.png

Installation and maintenance

describe what is needed to put a new device of this kind into operation state: configuration, firmware uploading, software modifications, ...

Reference

This topic is referred in: DarkWheelMotor, StepperMotorAdaptorBox

Topic label

DarkWheel

aowiki.arcetri.astro.it/ARGOSPublic/DarkWheel
Topic revision: r4 - 21 Jan 2014, TommasoMazzoni
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