Re: Anaheim

Nathan,
I'm sure you are about to get a lot of help here from others more
experienced than me. Geckos are hard to beat. You can go to thier
site or the Yahoo Gecko group for more info but most of the problems
come from incorrect wiring, not the design. Seems that is the case
with a lot of drives, not just Geckos. Mariss, designer of the Gecko
is designing a new drive to combat this problem. As for the question
of only using 2 of the 4 windings, that depends on what motors you
have, unipolar, or bipolar and how you have them wired. Bipolar
Parallel and Bipolar series use all the windings, Bipolar Half
winding only uses two.

Marv



--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com, "rocketscientistnate"
<rocketscientistnate@y...> wrote:

> Is anyone here familiar with Anaheim? (www.anaheimautomation.com) I
> looked through their products, but their price list is being updated
> and is currently unavailable. I know they'll be more expensive than
> Gecko's, but it seems like a lot of the little lizards have been
> burning up lately (just from reading these messages). Most of the
> Anaheim driver's have motor miswiring protection built in. They
> even have a stepper/driver combo built together in the same case,
> just a cable to hook your pulse generator to. I was about to throw
> out my old Boss 5, but I think you guys have convinced me to go with
> Geckos or at least something similar. Did I understand right that
> geckos only use 2 of the 4 windings? How does this affect its
> performance? I'm probably wrong, and I know it does work, but this
> doesn't seem like the "correct" way to make a machine run. (but hey,
> as long as its running right?) Anyway, just looking for some
> thoughts of the more experienced before I get the courage to dig
> into this project.
>
> Nathan Clymer