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Thanks for the info. Looks interesting but we can only use the custom amplifiers that are matched to our motors.

Well, I would need 16 of these, so space and cost wise the axis cards are far more efficient. Also I have to use an external amplifier as the motors I'm using cannot be driven directly by DeltaTau, so the amplifier capacity of the MACRO drive would be wasted. Regardless, that doesn't get me to the new DSPGATE3 ASIC which is where I want to go.

Hello, I'm requiring dual encoder feedback for each axis in our application. Currently we were using Acc-24e2 connected to the quadrature AB encoder, and a separate ACC-84 connected to an SSI encoder. Electrically, it looks like I can connect both an ABQuad and an SSI encoder to the ACC24e3 at the same time - is this correct? Can the software read both simultaneously removing my need for the ACC-84 cards? Thanks!

Thanks for the clarification Sina, Unfortunately I have too many axis to control to fit them all into one rack, forcing me to do multiple racks over MACRO. So will the MACRO16 cards be updated to support the 32bit communication? Is there a timeframe? I see there is already an ACC-5e3 for the other side of the communications.

I have a PowerPMAC system communicating to a UMAC rack over MACRO that contains the ACC24e2a interface cards. I'd like to use the new ACC24e3a cards, but apparently I'd also need to have an updated Macro CPU and ACC5e Macro interface card, is this correct? Any expected release date for this? Thanks!