Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] how much motor cogging is OK?

Frankly, only you can answer that, based on your application. How slow
do you run it? If your application doesn't tolerate torque ripple, you
can gear it down, add inertia, or change to an AC servo or a stepper
driven by linear sinusoids (or approximation.)

On 9/29/06, Elliot Burke <elliot@...> wrote:
> To use a motor for a servo, how much cogging is OK? My motor definitely has
> some cogging, it can be felt while rotating the shaft by hand. It hasn't
> been driven slow enough to see if this affects its rotation.
>
> As a figure of merit, is something like the cogging torque/moment of
> intertia reasonable?
>
> thanks for any help here, I'll be sure to share what is learned.
>
> regards-
> Elliot
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