Re:Smart Motors

The $500 deal is on a 23 frame motor delivering "up to" a mighty 30 oz/in
of continuous torque. The strange thing is, that it also goes up to 10,000
rpm. So who knows, maybe fitted with a gearhead, it would be enough to
power a small mill at a more moderate speed. Anybody know where to get
100-to1 speed reducers in size 23? To find out about these, go to
http://www.animatics.com/whatsnew.shtml (or click the "what's new" button
on their site).

Andrew Werby

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@egroups.com, "Fred Smith" <imserv@i...> wrote:
> I have not seen this mentioned on the list, but today I talked to
> these folks and it seemed that it might be of interest to some &
that
> others might have already evaluated them & could shed some
additional
> light.
>
> A company in California is manufacturing what they call a smart
> motor. It is a packaged servomotor, encoder, and control
> electronics. They claim about $500 per axis(and up) & are able to
> control up to 5 axes simultaneous contouring from a PC controller
> program through the Serial port, daisey chained to each motor and a
> DC power supply. The PC controller program is apparently included
&
> understands G-code. I asked about cutter comp & was not satisfied
> that they do it now, but it sounds like they may have already
worked
> out the algorithms & could implement it rather quickly if needed.
>
> http://www.animatics.com
>
> Anybody else looked at these? They claim 3 motors, a power supply
> and a PC are all that you need to build a CNC servo system. I
heard
> the phrase "Position Time Pairs" used to describe the interface
> between the PC & the smart motors.

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