Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Rutex Servo Drives. Any opinions?

I use both Rutex and Gecko servo drives. I have purchased I guess about 8
Gecko's and about 14 Rutex drives. The Rutex drives do what Vladimir
claims. In one application particularly the Rutex drives shine. This is
where for whatever reason, you are not too particular about following error,
like in rapid moves where the motion is unpredictable. The example I am
referring to is when you are using handwheels to move the mechanism around
in both axises at the same time rapidly. Geckos fault out when I push them
like this. I have never had a Rutex fault out. There are no grounding
issues that cause faults, or any surprizes. The boards are well made, and
Vladimir is easy to work with. At machining rates the following errors are
about the same for Gecko's and Rutex servo drives, in my opinion. I have
three of the high speed drives on order, and based upon my past experience,
I expect them to work as specified. We use two Gecko drives on our plasma
cutter.

Hope this helps.
Tom Eldredge

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Subject: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Rutex Servo Drives. Any opinions?


> I'm in the process of a stepper to servo conversion and am
> considering the Rutex drives.
>
> I've spoken with Vladimir @ Rutex and he's developing an R990 with a
> flash memory that will retain SPI programmed settings. He also
> released a high speed version a short time ago.
>
> This along with the extensive control over the drives functions via
> the SPI have my interest. Also the self tuning software sounds nice.
>
> Anyone have opinions?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Chris
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