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General Mach Discussion / How to size motor's to application

« on: January 14, 2007, 02:51:21 PM »

How do you properly size a stepper motor to an application? Working on converting a Laguna mill, really not quite sure how to size the motors? Was thinking of getting some in 700 oz range. Is there some rules about sizing at all?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Set Z to zero automatically?Auto tool zero questions

« on: January 08, 2007, 02:53:49 PM »

All The guys are doing is ::)using a chunk of AL .125 plate and when the tool hits the part it tells the computer that it is there... I didn't think something like this would work but I was wrong

You would hook the frame to one side and the plate to the other side of the input... I have no idea how they stop noise from being a problem.
Hope that helps
Brian

I work for multicam, thats how they do it, except that they put a grounding clip on the spindle because their spindles have ceramic bearings so it would not transfer the signal

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Automation Direct

« on: January 03, 2007, 03:21:16 PM »

At 114 it is just about free in the past I have used drives that cost me 10X Not a bad deal!

Never meant to say it was a bad price, theyre prices are extremly good. And i most likely wil end up going with them. Their G203V drives seem quite nice, i might get those.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Automation Direct

« on: January 03, 2007, 12:05:59 AM »

For a begginer Geckos are your best bet. They will even replace one drive if you fry it. And they handle some seriuos beatting.
http://www.geckodrive.com/

Actually there is where my first experience with motion control came, worked on a Practical Cnc table, which the gecko drive failed on, and no they did not replace it for free. Very good people to deal with though and very helpful.

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General Mach Discussion / Automation Direct

« on: January 02, 2007, 08:34:47 PM »

What do you guys think of their pricing on their stepper parts? I thought they were pretty decent and looks like should work pretty good. Any feed back apreciated, and yes im new here!

http://web2.automationdirect.com/adc/Search/Search?searchquery=stepper&cmd=Search&fctype=adc.falcon.search.SearchFormCtrl&TxnNumber=-1