Aerotech Automation1 XL5e Enhanced, Linear Servo Drive

High-Powered Linear Amplifier Performance

Aerotech’s highest performance single-axis linear servo motor

drive, the XL5e enables low noise and high-precision motion

control for the world’s most demanding precision motion

applications, including eddy current inspection, sensor testing

and high-precision position and velocity tracking.

You’ll see more accurate position tracking, more precise in

position stability and smaller minimum step sizes because the

XL5e’s performance is driven by high-end components that enable

zero amplifier “dead time” and high-resolution, low-noise current

sensing. A highly integrated design means you have control and

bus power supplies, servo and current controllers, linear power

amplifiers, cooling fans and heatsinks in a single package.

Automation1

The XL5e is a part of the user-friendly Automation1 motion

control platform, which includes the following:

• Development Software

• Controls

• Motor Drives

• Fiber-Optic HyperWire® Communication Bus

KEY FEATURES:

• Controls drive brush, brushless, voice coil & stepper motors

• Connects through the HyperWire® fiberoptic bus, which has

20 TIMES THE

• BANDWIDTH of 100BASE-T Ethernet buses

• Produces UP TO 600W POWER OUTPUT from integral power

supply

• Includes SAFE TORQUE OFF (STO) safety circuit

• Features 67.1 MB drive array with MORE THAN 16 MILLION

32-BIT ELEMENTS

• Offers many optional features, including Multi-axis Position

Synchronized Output (PSO) and I/O expansion board

Packed with Features

Standard features for the Automation1 XL5e include safe torque

off (STO), a data array with more than 16 million 32-bit elements,

digital and analog I/O, Position Synchronized Output (PSO),

dedicated home and end-of-travel limit inputs and an enhanced

current sense device.

Feedback Flexibility

The standard XL5e accepts square-wave and absolute encoder 

feedback signals. With the optional encoder multiplier feature,

sine-wave encoders can be multiplied by up to 65.536. making 

XL5e our highest-resolution position feedback drive.

Dual-multiplied and dual-absolute encoder feedback is supported.

Control Your Process

The XL5e is more than a motion control device. It also includes 

many process control features. Empowered with Aerotech’s PSO

functionality, a single-axis XL5e can track up to three encoders

in real time to trigger a process tool like an industrial laser or

camera.

Each XL5e can be configured with an optional I/O expansion board,

greatly increasing the number of I/O points. The I/O board includes

a dedicated PSO output, and PSO can be used with a synchronization

input to synchronize process control with an external mode-locked

frequency input.

Low Noise Operation

Linear amplifiers are characterized by low noise operation, and the

XL5e is no different. This is because linear amplifiers do not incorporate

on-off pulse width modulation (PWM) switching to control motor currents.

Ready To Connect

Two HyperWire connections make it simple to connect the XL5e with

other Automation1 drive hardware in a multi-axis configuration.

A 24-volt one amp brake output is included. The device is CE approved,

NRTL safety certified and EU 2015/863 RoHS 3 directive certified.

The power amplifier bandwidth is software selectable.