A lot of it depends on how much power you need from the motors..and how fast do you want your machine to move. Then also what happens if you lose position on a stepper??
Dave On 8/5/2013 1:34 PM, Sven Wesley wrote: > As you might know (according to recent mail activity) I'm going to build a > new machine. My plan is to use a mesa card setup and the machine will > support 5 axis, but I will start with three... ...I think. This is where my > need of decision support comes in. I have always used servo's even on > smallest machines. But when I look at the stepper setups, they are like > half price even if I go with beefy motors. > > Should I cut the costs and use steppers, or should I bit the apple and pay > for a servo setup this time too? > > FYI, this is the base of my machine. I have two of these Deckel palettes. > http://bit.ly/16Y5o8y > I've been using motors and drives from http://cncdrive.com with great > success in the past and their drives are really stable with some nice > security features. > > /S > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Get your SQL database under version control now! > Version control is standard for application code, but databases havent > caught up. So what steps can you take to put your SQL databases under > version control? Why should you start doing it? Read more to find out. > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=49501711&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get your SQL database under version control now! Version control is standard for application code, but databases havent caught up. So what steps can you take to put your SQL databases under version control? Why should you start doing it? Read more to find out. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48897031&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
