The AMT family is a rugged, high accuracy encoder based on CUI’s proprietary capacitive encoder platform. AMT encoders are not susceptible to contaminants that typically plague encoders in industrial environments. Additionally, the family’s digital-based design provides users with excellent programmability and diagnostic capabilities.
The simple and intuitive AMT Viewpoint software speeds development, allowing users to configure a range of encoder parameters, including resolution, zero position and, in the case of commutation models, pole count and direction of rotation.
Additionally, the software provides engineers access to a range of diagnostic data for quick analysis during design or while in the field. The GUI requires just a USB cable to interface to the encoder, and implements a simple serial-data format.
Programming an encoder through the GUI takes just a few keystrokes and about 30 seconds for the cycle to complete. Significantly, the aligning and zeroing of an encoder for either A, B, index or commutation mode takes only seconds, a sharp contrast to completing this task with a non-programmable optical or magnetic encoder, where the multi-step process of physically aligning the commutation signals can take 15 to 20 minutes.