EFS Feed Wheels

The electronic feed wheels EFS 820 and EFS 920 of the company Memminger-IRO are supported in the Setup Editor.

You have two options to connect the feed wheels:

Serial

CAN

Quantity of feed wheel groups

6

100

Connection type
Machine - Feed Wheel

unidirectional
Machine -> Feed Wheel

bidirectional
Machine <-> Feed Wheel

Mode 8 (Setup Editor)
(Yarn tension return correction factor)

no 1

1 available at the feed wheel only

yes

Mode 12 (Setup Editor)
(permanent take-up function)

no 1

1 available at the feed wheel only

yes*

* Firmware update from Memminger-IRO required

Data transfer rate

4800 B/s

1 MB/s

If the machine is equipped with EFS-Kit (ID 268 338) or the CAN-Gateway, then the Feed Wheels menu will be displayed in the Setup Editor.

Changes for "Mode 8" (Yarn tension return correction factor)

Up to now

Up to now, only one value could be set for "Mode 8" ("SFOINIT" tab)

New

The value for "Mode 8" can individually be adapted to the knitting situation at the "SFOI" tab.