Re: 201 Drivers and 42 Motors

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@egroups.com, "Mariss Freimanis"
<geckohall@h...> wrote:

> John, sorry for not addressing your question. Though it is a good
> idea, it is not practical to do what you suggest. A step motor

drive

> needs to sense phase current. An external amplifier will not

provide

> that function; it would need to be custom designed to do this. At
> that point you may as well design a new drive from the ground up.

All

> the stuff would then be in one box instead of two.
>

Mariss and others,
Thank you for this explanation, it's answered what I thought was an
obvious question. Now back to the spanners where I belong <g>

John Stevenson,
Nottingham, England.