Re: gecko drive power supplies??

If a switcher has overvoltage shutdown, connect its output to a
10,000 uF capacitor via a rectifier diode. Pick up the supply to the
drive/s from that capacitor.

Mariss

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com, "Madhu Annapragada"
<mapr@c...> wrote:

> It is generally not a good idea to use switching power supplies

with motion

> control systems. Energy produced during regeneration has to go

somewhere and

> it usually ends up in the output capacitors of a linear power

supply leading

> to an increase in the voltage (unless you have a regen braking

circuit built

> in which ends up dissipating the power in a resistor). Switching

power

> supplies do not handle regeneration events very well and may shut

down. That

> said it is possible to use switching power supplies for motion

control if

> you are willing to re-design the output stage of the supply. Short

answer

> use a bulk un-regulated linear supply; it is much easier on the

transistors

> driving your motors.
> Madhu
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Powell [mailto:tppjr@h...]
> Can I use a switching power supply for a gecko drive?