Equipment Budget
The equipment budget for this project allows for purchase of control equipment for up to 16 axes of motion. This includes industrial PCs and monitors, PCI-bus control cards, control and development software, AC inverter motor drives, position encoders and connection interface and cabling.
Current budget for equipment--
| Computer Hardware | |||||
| Industrial PC | 2 | @ | $ 2,195 | $ 4,390 | |
| Monitor | 2 | @ | $ 2,149 | $ 4,298 | |
| Desktop workstation | 1 | @ | $ 2,150 | $ 2,150 | |
| Notebook | 1 | @ | $ 2,500 | $ 2,500 | |
| PCI-Bus motion control card | 4 | @ | $ 1,495 | $ 5,980 | |
| subtotal | $ 19,318 | ||||
| Software | |||||
| LabVIEW Application Builder | 1 | @ | $ 995 | $ 995 | |
| LabVIEW Full Development System | 1 | @ | $ 1,995 | $ 1,995 | |
| subtotal | $ 2,990 | ||||
| Electronic | |||||
| Motor Drives | 8 | @ | $ 1,000 | $ 8,000 | |
| Motor Encoders | 8 | @ | $ 100 | $ 800 | |
| Interconnects and cables | 4 | @ | $ 680 | $ 2,720 | |
| Misc. Wiring | misc | @ | $ 400 | $ 400 | |
| subtotal | $ 11,920 | ||||
| Network | |||||
| Switching Hub | 2 | @ | $ 100 | $ 200 | |
| Misc. Wiring | misc | @ | $ 500 | $ 500 | |
| subtotal | $ 700 | ||||
| Equipment totals | $ 34,928 | ||||