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    Safe Drive Control Including STO: I Have Discussed Stop Categories Before Emergency Stop - What's So Confusing About That

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    The document discusses Safe Torque Off (STO) functionality in motor drives. STO describes a state where the drive is reliably torque-free. STO and other safety functions like Safe Stop 1 can be used for emergency stop functions, while STO, Safe Stop 1 and Safe Stop 2 can be used for safety-related stop functions initiated by safety devices. The document focuses on motor drives and their stopping functions, expanding on previous discussions of stop categories.

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    The document discusses Safe Torque Off (STO) functionality in motor drives. STO describes a state where the drive is reliably torque-free. STO and other safety functions like Safe Stop 1 can be used for emergency stop functions, while STO, Safe Stop 1 and Safe Stop 2 can be used for safety-related stop functions initiated by safety devices. The document focuses on motor drives and their stopping functions, expanding on previous discussions of stop categories.

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    The document discusses Safe Torque Off (STO) functionality in motor drives. STO describes a state where the drive is reliably torque-free. STO and other safety functions like Safe Stop 1 can be used for emergency stop functions, while STO, Safe Stop 1 and Safe Stop 2 can be used for safety-related stop functions initiated by safety devices. The document focuses on motor drives and their stopping functions, expanding on previous discussions of stop categories.

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    The document discusses Safe Torque Off (STO) functionality in motor drives. STO describes a state where the drive is reliably torque-free. STO and other safety functions like Safe Stop 1 can be used for emergency stop functions, while STO, Safe Stop 1 and Safe Stop 2 can be used for safety-related stop functions initiated by safety devices. The document focuses on motor drives and their stopping functions, expanding on previous discussions of stop categories.

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    3/9/22, 12:42 PM Safe Drive Control including Safe Torque Off (STO)

    Safe Drive Control including STO

    Variable Frequency Drive for conveyor speed control [1]

    Motor drives are everywhere. From DC variable speed drives and indexing drives, through AC Variable Frequency drives, servo drives and stepper motor drives, the
    capabilities and the flexibility of these electronic systems have given machine designers unprecedented capabilities when compared to basic relay or contactor-based motor
    starters. We now have the capability to control mechanisms using motors in ways that would have been hard to imagine at the beginning of the industrial revolution. Along with
    these control capabilities come safety-related functions like Safe Torque Off (STO).

    Since we are controlling machinery, safety is always a concern. In the 1990’s when I started designing machinery with motor drives, dealing with safety concerns usually meant
    adding a suitably rated contactor upstream of the drive so that you could interrupt power to the drive in case something went wrong. With early servo drives, interrupting the
    supply power often meant losing position data or worse. Placing contactors between the drive and the motor solved this problem, but interrupting the supply power would
    sometimes cause the drive stage of the servo controller to blow up if the switch-off happened with the motor running and under high load. Motor drive manufacturers
    responded by providing contactors and other components built into their drives, creating a feature called Safe Torque Off (STO).

    STO describes a state where “The drive is reliably torque-free” [2]. The functions discussed in this article are described in detail in IEC 61800-5-2 [3]. The functions are also
    listed in [10, Table 5.2]. Note that only Safe Torque Off and Safe Stop 1 can be used for emergency stop functions. Safe Torque Off, Safe Stop 1 and Safe Stop 2 can be used
    for safety-related stop functions initiated by a safeguarding device. This distinction, between emergency stop functions and safeguarding functions, is an important one.

    If you have been a reader of this blog for a while, you may recall that I have discussed stop categories before. This article expands on those concepts with the focus on motor
    drives and their stopping functions specifically. I’ve also talked about Emergency Stop extensively. You might be interested in reading more about the e-stop function, starting
    with the post “Emergency Stop – What’s so confusing about that?”

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