Leadshine offers wide choices of closed loop stepper drives which can control stepper motors through simple step and direction control or EtherCAT network bus.
After adding an encoder to a stepper motor, a closed-loop stepper drive can detect both the commanded target position & real-time position of the motor shaft and thus capable of closing the position loop like servo system. This approach makes the closed-loop system not only solve the step loss problem of open-loop stepper systems, but also keep the simplicity and low cost features of open-loop systems. Therefore, Leadshine closed loop stepper drives are ideal choices for upgrading open-loop systems, or replacing many servo low-middle-speed applications.