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Kinetix 5500 Rotation Direction

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Hi,

I'm using a kinetix 5500 on a indexing table 0 - 360

I have to use the shortest path so I'm using "Rotary Shortest Path" as the move type.

For tracking product reasons I need to detect rotation direction? Anyone know if this is possible?

i.e. detect cw or ccw etc?

Thanks in advance

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This depends on Motor Polarity & Feedback Polarity, an attribute that allows the move polarity to be flipped to match a process direction.  Servo controllers think in terms of target position in relation to actual position per settings configured.

I remember needing this same tag some years ago and coding it with timers, storage of position, comparison of buffered and existing position, then energizing CW or CCW status tags.

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