Re: motors from floppy drives

hi David,

suggest you double check the motors from your floppy drive. i've never
seen 200 step/rev motors used there, usualy 24 or 48 step motors are used.
if you have found 200 step motors, would you share the mfg of the drives
because a source of really small motors with fine steps would prove useful
to others.

-ron

On Wed, 12 May 1999, David Forsyth wrote:

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> Drives will be (at this stage) 200step/rev motors from floppy drives,
> driving 1mm pitch leadscrews (read as threaded rod from local
> hardware store :-)
> This gives a theoretical resolution of 0.005mm per step. Of course
> this is ondone a bit by the 'leadscrews', but I'll see how it goes.