Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] DC motor as replacement for Stepper motor

Smoke wrote:

> Thanks...I think.
>
> Does this mean the DC motor would step in 1.8 degree increments or would it
> "step" in whatever degree increments you wanted based on the electronics?

The increments would be whatever the quadrature edge count of the enocder
was. If it was a 500 cycle/rev encoder, you get 2000 counts/rev, so it would
step in 360/2000 = 0.18 degree increments. If that is too fine, you can use a
coarser encoder.

> How accurate would it be in this regard?

As accurate as your encoder.

> If you could vary the step increments and hold the accuracy, it seems to me
> one might just as well forget about using steppers altogether

Yup!