Hardware Comparison

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Following tables give a quick overview about all hardware available from HALaser Systems. This includes an overview about all electronics and control boards. To check out which controller cards are supported by BeamConstruct laser marking software, please go to page of supported hardware.

	E1803D	E1701A	E1701D	E1701M
Type	Compact Digital XY2/100 Scanner and Laser Controller	Modular Analogue Scanner and Laser Controller	Modular Digital XY2/100 Scanner and Laser Controller	Motor Controller
Controllable Devices / Interfaces	XY2/100 Scanhead Laser Stepper Motors (requires power driver) RS232/RS485	Analog Scanhead Laser (may require extensions) Stepper Motors (requires Digi I/O Extension Board and power driver)	XY2/100 Scanhead Laser (may require extensions) Stepper Motors (requires Digi I/O Extension Board and power driver)	Stepper Motors (requires power driver)
Interface to Scanhead	XY2/100 (digital) D-SUB25 and 26 pin	±2,5..10 V (analogue)	XY2/100 (digital) 26 pin
Secondary Scanhead			Up to three via Secondary Head Extension Board
Interface to Laser		may require extension boards	may require extension boards
Motion Axes	up to four independent axes via integrated digital IOs	up to four independent axes via Digi I/O Extension Board	up to four independent axes via Digi I/O Extension Board	up to four independent axes
Expandable by Extension Boards
Supports stand-alone operation				manual jog-mode
Supports marking on-the-fly		requires Digi I/O Extension Board	requires Digi I/O Extension Board
BeamConstruct PRO License included
Power Supply	±12..24 V or USB	±15 V	+5 V or USB	+5 V or USB
SLS/3D Printing (Rapid Prototyping)	Laser via scanhead	Laser via scanhead	Laser via scanhead
Dot-Peen / Matrix Laser Marking	1..2 lines, 6..13 dots
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The table below gives an overview about the possibilities to drive (stepper) motors, their advantages and features. This list contains only these solutions which are made by HALaser Systems, for other motion controllers which are available from within BeamConstruct please refer the hardware support page.

	Software driver	E1701M
Type	BeamConstruct plug-in	Motor Controller
Acceleration modes	logarithmic	logarithmic linear s-shaped
Acceleration	one acceleration value for all situations, no stop acceleration	separate values for acceleration, deceleration and stop possible
Motion mode	sequential, only one axis at the same time	all axes parallel and independent from each other
Referencing modes	simplified: enter limit switch in one direction or enter and leave limit switch in different directions two separate referencing speeds for entering and leaving the limit switch positive or negative direction	complex: up to four referencing steps combineable out of direction, entering and leaving limit switch up to four separate referencing speeds for referencing steps positive or negative direction search for limit switch (automatic direction change)
Stop of running motion	delayed, may be dropped in case of short movements	immediate reaction (realtime operation)
Hardware I/Os	uses digital-IOs of scanner controller card	provides own, additional IOs
Axes	up to four	up to four
Maximum step frequency	100 kHz	500 kHz
Other		encoder inputs for two axes