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Hot topics in Control Engineering for 2022

Control Engineering

Top 5 VFD parameter changes explained, 2020: Programming variable frequency drives (VFDs) to fit most industrial applications require only the most basic settings to operate the motor. Understand these 5 VFD parameter changes to optimize VFD programming to fit most motor-drive applications.

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How to optimize industrial motor communications, Part 2, strategies

Control Engineering

EtherCAT communications: One frame, many nodes Bob Trask: Early on in my career, I was working with a group of people at Sercos, and they were figuring out that SercosII was the best fit for what they were trying to do at the time. They weren’t even talking about a controller. Even 20 years ago, the weak link was communications.