Press Releases
The following is a list of our press releases which highlights our newest products and features. They are listed newest to oldest. See our Projects page for the latest interesting project we have been used on.
QCI adds SilverSterling OEM Drives
QuickSilver Controls, Inc. adds the SilverSterling™ controller to its line of controllers/drivers for NEMA 11, 17, and 23 frame brushless servo motors, DC brush motors and Voice coil actuators, providing a 3.5A RMS x 2 phases continuous drive with 5A peak at 12v to 48v. The SilverSterling provides both RS-485 and CAN communications ports, supporting DMX, MODbusTM RTU, and CANopen®, ASCII and Binary protocols.
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QCI extends CiA 402-CANopen Profiles to OEM Drives
QuickSilver Controls, Inc. adds CANopen® DSP 402 (CiA® DSP 402 v3.0) to its OEM line of controllers/drivers for NEMA 11, 17 and 23 frame brushless servo motors, further extending the capabilities by adding encoder following and “hard-stop” homing capabilities as a manufacturer extension to the specification.
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NEMA 23 Servo Motor with Improved Efficiency and PowerQCI-A23L-3
QuickSilver Controls, Inc. expands its line of servo motors with the QCI-A23L-3. This servo motor provides almost 33% higher power output capability than the similarly sized motor it replaces. This power increase comes with an efficiency improvement of approximately 15% over the speed range of the motor. Performance is especially improved at higher speeds.
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Stand Alone CANopen®
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DSP 402 (CiA® DSP 402 v 3.0)QuickSilver Controls, Inc. adds CANopen® DSP 402 (CiA® DSP 402 v3.0) to its line of brushless servo motor controllers. CiA 402 refers to CAN in Automation (CiA) CANopen Drives and Motion Control Profile 402. This profile defines such functions as start-up and homing techniques as well as motion profiles. A host controller, for example a PLC, supporting CiA 402 could command multiple CiA 402 motor controllers from multiple vendors.
CANopen® and CiA® are registered community trade marks of CAN in Automation e.V.
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Tightening ApplicationQuickSilver uses its ability to precisely control torque and position to solve tightening applications.
The most common tightening applications are caps or nuts. These types of applications require accurate control of torque and position to avoid stripping, under tightening, over tightening, missing bottles, cross-threading, and mechanical jams.
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SEMA: Toyota Tundra/Ducati TransporterQuickSilver’s servo motors used to raise and lower the sides of the bed on the 2008 SEMA: Toyota Tundra/Ducati Transporter.
Toyota partnered with Italian sports- and racing-motorcycle maker Ducati to create the one of a kind motorcycle transport for the 2008 SEMA show. This truck featured Ducati's Desmosedici in the bed and had very cool new features not yet seen on full size pickups.
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Winding ApplicationQuickSilver adds winding to its repertoire of features. QuickSilver’s unique ability to handle large inertial loads (large inertial mismatch) allows us to direct drive large product reels. The advanced PVIA™ servo control algorithm provides impressive stability from full to empty reels. Precise torque control of the brushless servo motor and programmable controller’s electronic slip clutch feature (“drag” mode) allows the servo motor to keep constant web tension as wind/unwind reels payout and take up product.
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Calgary Zoo Animatronic Lion Uses QuickSilver Servo MotorsAnimatronic technology is roaring at the Calgary Zoo, Alberta Canada, in the form of a life-sized talking, moving male lion. Eleven (11) QuickSilver servo motors animate the figure using a Gilderfluke show controller and DMX512 protocol.
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OEM Servo Motor Controller with CANopen®QuickSilver has added a CANopen option to its OEM servo motor controller. CANopen may be configured for peer-to-peer, master or slave. This allows the controllers to share I/O and registers with other CANopen enabled SilverDust™ controllers or 3rd party CANopen devices (i.e. I/O blocks, encoders, PLCs…). For a multi-axis system, connect several IG-Js, make one the master and let the others receive motion commands over CANopen.
CANopen® and CiA® are registered community trade marks of CAN in Automation e.V.
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NEMA 34 Servo Motor
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OEM Closed Loop Stepper Motor Controller
with CANopen®
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QuickSilver Used at
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Simple Servo Motor and Controller
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NEMA 34 Servo Motor
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Solid ModelsSolid Models are now available for QuickSilver's servo motors and controllers. |
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QuickControl® 4.6 ReleaseQuickSilver Controls, Inc., releases its newest version of its popular application development software, QuickControI®.
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OEM Servo Motor Controller/Driver Board
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Servo Motor Controller With DMX 512QuickSilver Controls adds the DMX512 serial protocol to its SilverDust™ line of servo motor controllers. This popular entertainment industry standard allows a master show controller to broadcast a packet of information to control such things as lighting dimmers, fog machines, and now QuickSilver’s servo motors. |
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145 oz-in (1Nm)
NEMA 23 Frame Servo Motor
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Servo Controlled Rotary Knife ApplicationQuickSilver Controls SilverDust servo controller/driver is now capable of doing rotary knife applications. Rotary knife systems are widely used to cut, seal or perforate material moving along a conveyor. |
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Entry Level Servo Motor Controller
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QuickSilver Adds Modbus TCPQuickSilver’s SilverDust IG8 servo controller/driver is now available with a Modbus TCP option. This popular protocol works over Ethernet and allows PLCs and other host controllers to share data via a register mapping scheme. |
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QuickSilver's 24V Basic Breakout
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Compact Servo Motor Controller
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NEMA 11 Frame Servo Motor
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Joystick InputJoystick (analog input) used to command motion. |
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CANopen®QuickSilver Controls, Inc., adds CAN bus to its SilverDust™ IGB servo motion controller/driver for servo control of NEMA 17 and 23 frame servo motors. The CANopen compatible interface is fully isolated and supports up to 64 devices on the 1MB bus.
CANopen® and CiA® are registered community trade marks of CAN in Automation e.V. |
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Multi-ThreadRun two programs at the same time using Multi-Thread. |
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Right Angle Motor Cable Adapters
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Programmable Limit SwitchQuickSilver Controls, Inc., adds a Programmable Limit Switch (PLS) output to its SilverDust™ controller/drivers. |
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SilverDust Open LoopQuickSilver Controls, Inc., has added open loop operation to its servo controller, the SilverDust. For years QuickSilver has produced servo controllers for microstep motors and now it has optimized the SilverDust to also operate a step motor in the traditional open loop configuration. |
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IP65 Motor/Encoder NEMA 34 FrameQuickSilver Controls, Inc.,now offers NEMA 34 IP65 servo motors with encoders for wash down applications. Based on QuickSilver’s existing NEMA 34 frame servo motors, this new line exceeds the IP65 standard. |
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Servo Motor Controller with 16 24V I/O
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NEMA 17 and 23 Frame IP65 Servo Motor/EncoderQuickSilver Controls, Inc., fills the industry need for a wash down servo system with its new line of NEMA 17 and 23 IP65 servo motor/encoders. Based on QuickSilver’s existing NEMA 17 and 23 frame motors, this new line exceeds the IP65 standard. |
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380 oz-in (2.7 Nm) NEMA 23 Frame Servo Motor
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