Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Servomotors & Minimill - do these need speed reduction or not?

R Rogers wrote:

>The low rapid rate and general lack of torque at high speed seems to be the case with steppers. I'm wondering why anyone would opt to use them. The drives are much more expensive, alot more difficult to configure. Heating problems compared to servos etc. I've just noticed alot of posts with questions regarding steppers and I'm just confused why anyone would use them. There seems to be an abundance of used servos around. One person one here mentioned that "the steppers on his small mini-lathe produced enough heat to fry eggs"
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Tradition! People use steppers because that's the way almost all
hobby-level CNC
machines have been built for the last 25 years.

Jon