Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Gecko problems - What is going on?

It is the stepper drives that seem to have a high mortality rate with
bigger motors. As far as I know the servos are rock solid. I have
toasted 2 stepper drives but the servo drives are still working fine.

Les

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>There appears to be a number of people reporting problems of "Blowing"
>Gecko servo drives. As Gecko has such a solid reputation overall
>(many, many, positive posts), I am wondering what is going on.
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>Is there something inherent in the design, wherein if you do "this"
>then the drive will "Blow"? Just seems very strange that something
>that works for a couple of months (years whatever), can suddenly blow.
>I am planning a servo driven machine right now and I sure don't want to
>end up watching the drives blow every couple of months because I
>did "Something" that no one can determine what the cause is. This is
>sort of "X files" spooky stuff.
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