The best stepper driver??? was Re: Stepper questions

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> ballendo wrote:
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> >Gecko's are clearly the best, and their price refects that. They

> >also overkill for MANY projects.
> >I use them and appreciate their performance and features where the
> >added price--and in my case the larger difficulty to wire up--

> >my GeoM drives are plug-n-play.
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> Their price? They are probably the best value drive out there!

> know we cant even buy a chinese microstepping drive for that little

> in the UK. Gecko G201 = $114 = 67UKP, best value chinese drive

> good) 82.50UKP = $140, OK this chinese drive has a larger range of
> microsteps (but we always only use 10) has short cicuit protection,
> although if it's like the parker drives I've used in the past that

> only on power up.
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> These Chinese drives do seem to be noisier maybe lower switching
> frequency. It's also unlikely we will be able to buy them from the
> current supplier after July 1st. Mariss on the other hand is

> "The issue"
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> Personally I think Mariss has priced his drives just right, anyone
> whining about it maybe ought to take up crosstitch. Cos they'll

> whining later about the inferior drives they bought. I wont penny
> pinch on drives.
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> Out of all the drives Ive tried I still think I prefer the Parker
> OEM-650's but I cant get them anymore.
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> I only bought chinese drives recently because I needed them

> it was interesting to try them.
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> Wayne...
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