Tripleback,
I'm not a fan of Rutex or any other brand, I'm just trying to sort thru the available products and select one that will do the job for me, preferably for under $200. The Gecko is a nice drive, but severely limits the motor speed and the fixed following error trip results in the drive faulting constantly. Gecko is coming out with a new model G320X, but so far, I have been unable to get the specs on it. I just sent the Viper95 back to Canada so I'm still in the hunt for a servo drive. Rutex is one of about 4 or 5 that I'm looking at.
IF the Rutex does what they claim, it would be perfect, but that's what I though about the Viper too, so it ultimately gets down to testing the products in-house, but that is very expensive time wise . . not to mention international shipping costs.
I am reading some issues with the current Rutex, but those are all interface/wiring problems that get quickly sorted out. The 'blown' Rutex problem was common it seems a couple years ago, but nothing lately. I have not been able to determine what component blew out on the drives. If it was the MOSfets, they are easy to replace with larger ones, and a lot of the newer drives are no longer using MOSfets. An advertised feature of the Viper is 'replaceable' MOSfets, so one might assume this is a common problem.
Other than the amp rating, did you have any other problems with the Rutex? How did the drives run the motors? Was there windows tuning software at the time? How did that work?