SERVO ratings, ( was e: Xylotex / RapidSyn/ Power Supply help?

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I have to deferr to the pro's who have experiance with servos.

> [What about servos? The servo motors I've been looking at list

voltages

> which range between 12 and 60 VDC. (See
> http://www.polysci.com/Documents/moc23series.PDF ) I'd been

assuming that

> this referred to the running voltage range, the motors going faster

as the

> voltage increased. Is it really a nominal voltage, as with

steppers, or was

> I correct? Will these motors run fine on the lower end of the range
> (assuming I'm driving them with Gecko 320s), or will they

lack "pep"? There

> seems to be a tradeoff between volts and amps- there are motors

calling for

> fewer volts, but they want more amps. The ones running on higher

voltage

> seem to draw fewer amps. Do the former go slower but with more

torque, while

> the latter go faster with less? Is there a simple way to swap amps

for volts

> in a power supply, so one has control over this? For instance, if I

have a

> 12v 10 amp (120 watt) supply, can I put some kind of a voltage

booster into

> the circuit and get 24v at 5 amps? I'm pretty sure this works in

reverse- a

> voltage regulator can limit the voltage, but is there a way to jack

it up?]

>
>
> Andrew Werby
> www.computersculpture.com

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