February 11, 2009 - Enfield Technologies' C2 Proportional System Controller has features that make it particularly easy-to-use. The C2 works with Enfield Technologies' high-speed high-accuracy proportional pneumatic valves in a variety of applications, including intermediate positioning of air cylinders, precision pressure regulation, variable flow control, and precision force control. The C2 can be used to control non-pneumatic devices such as voice-coil actuators and linear electric drives, or as a stand-alone advanced PID controller for test and measurement or R&D applications.The C2 eliminates screwdriver adjustments with a backlit graphic LCD and membrane keypad to access intuitive menus to configure and tune the system.
The closed-loop control electronics use a flexible Proportional-Integral-Derivative plus Feed-Forward (PID+FF) scheme with sophisticated valve management circuitry, including a patent pending dead-band eliminator that significantly improves overall system performance. Configuration settings include independent scaling of command and feedback signals; command ramp rates; electronic valve offset; and the ability to save and recall up to 10 gain configurations, making it ideal for multi-user, multi-application environments. The C2 Proportional System Controller is available with and without a built-in valve driver to meet diverse application requirements in factory automation, medical devices, laboratory instrumentation, and animatronics or robotics.
