Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] About 5-wire 5-phase Vexta motors

I stand corrected. Or even sit corrected, to be more accurate... ;-)

Regards,
Tony

At 12:12 25/09/2003 -0500, you wrote:

>Tony Jeffree wrote:
>
> >If I am not mistaken, 5 wire motors actually have 4 coils with 1 common
> >connection and can only be driven unipolar; 5 phase motors have 10
> >wires.
> >
>No. Many Vexta 5-phase motors have 5 wires, and the 5 coils are internally
>wired as a ring. It takes 10 transistors to drive them. I have a Vexta
>5-phase
>motor and a Super-Vexta driver for it. Until I got a Gecko 201A
>microstepping
>drive and hooked it to some old size 34 motors I had, I had never seen a
>stepper that could perform as well.
>
>All Vexta 5-phase motors have a 5 as the first digit in the part #. All
>Vexta
>2-phase motors have a 2 in the first digit.
>
>Jon
>
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Regards,
Tony