Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Hardware for CNC conversion

In a message dated 07-Sep-00 21:51:36 Central Daylight Time,
Area51tats@... writes:

<< Anybody have any suggestions for the hardware that goes between the
computer
and the stepper/driver motors themselves >>

Gerald: I did MY first stepper-motor creation (CNC Lathe) in '79, and since,
I have fiddled with lotsa "stepper stuff", including even having
custom-plated/etched PCB's made, which I then populated. Until Sigma
discontinued the "stepper-motor translator/driver IC". To make a long story
short, if I were paid $0.50 per hour, the cost to make the regulated
power-supply, the driver-boards, finding the balast-resistors for less than
the price of a new Toyota, etc., was higher than had I just glibly shut up
and PAID FOR the ready-to-run Superior Electric/Warner-Dana "drives in a box
with power-supply built-in". They also sell drives sans box and supply, but,
well, can YOU do that? For how much?

Here is their site for those products. Look at the SS2000DP4-FF "box". I
don't own stock in, nor work for Warner/Dana, but they seem to be bringing
Superior Electric into the 20th Century, so, may (just-) be ready for the
21st, when it comes, next year. Expensive, though. But, well,
"stepper-stuff IS!!!"

Jan Rowland, Troll