DC Motors

Hello,


After searching through the archives I found some discussion on using DC treadmill motors as servo's. Some said that this was not a good Idea due to brush design etc.

What im wondering is will any standard dc brush motor with encoder mounted operate as a servo even if only for a limited life. The positioning of the motor, acceleration etc would only be dependent on the controller and encoder? Or is there more that I need to be thinking about.

Thanks.

Jason Cox.




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