Re: Servo motor voltage

Chris,

If you don't ask the motor to go faster than its rated speed at 48VDC
and if you don't load the motor past its rated torque then your 66VDC
should be just fine.

The 5V stuff makes it impossible to overload the motor; in your case
you'll have to take care not to.

Mariss


--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com, Chris Baugher
<cbaugher_yahoo@b...> wrote:

>
> Hi,
> I notice in the manual for the Gecko G320 it says not to go more

than

> 5 volts over the rated voltage for servos. What I'm wondering is,

why 5

> volts? I'm building a supply for 60V motors and I found some 48V
> transformers for fairly cheap. This would get me:
>
> (48V * 1.4142) - 1.4V = 66.5V
>
> Would this be too much for 60V motors? Should I add some diodes to

drop

> the voltage a bit?
>
> Thanks!
>
> C|