Provides the interface between the CMM controller and the SPA2-2 (which provides power to the brushless motors)
Features
Up to four CMM axes can be handled by the UCC BI
Up to five CMM axes can be handled by a dual UCC BI system.
The UCC BI can automatically adjust the supply voltage to encoder readheads (to compensate for long scale cables)
Some 3rd party temperature compensation boxes can be interfaced to the UCC BI using the RS232 interface
Probe interface (PICS)
MCU interface
Supporting incremental and absolute encoders
CMM machine input / output, including:
Air solenoid
Brakes (for each axis)
Z-axis crash status
Travel limit warnings (both inner and outer limits for each axis)
Air status
13 un-committed I/O (6 input and 7 output) that can be customised by the user