Re: MircoStepping Drive Which One? Servo's

Hi Dave,
What "surplusCenter" are you refering for those encoders? I went to
http://www.surpluscenter.com
and couldn't locate any encoders...
Thanks IA

Bloy

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<dave_mucha@y...> wrote:

>
> >
> > From a servo perspective Fred's 30V 5A servo cards are the best
> deal
> > for smaller servos.
>
> These drives keep rolling around on my wonder-how-it-works list.
>
> A question I have is comparing any of these to servos.
>
> Looking at Freds $65/3axis for servo drivers, plus $50 for 3

encoders

> from SurplusCenter, you're in for around $250 for servo drives.
>
> But, you're also into (possibly) cheaper motors. The old line
> printers used to have 35 volt motors, but I don't know a source of
> cheap lower voltage motors that fit.
>
> Finding 5 amp motors that are in the 30volt range is hard, but it
> seems the power would be dang high if you could.
>
> Dave