On Tuesday 24 January 2017 12:37:19 Jon Elson wrote:

> On 01/23/2017 11:45 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > Greetings all;
> >
> > I see some "Nema 24" motors at quite reasonable prices showing up on
> > fleabay, in fairly high torque ratings, so I bought one 10 days
> > back, since I need a stronger one, with perhaps a damper on it on my
> > x axis. I bought the 8 wire model so I can drive it in parallel
> > where I ought to be able to get 3k rpms out of it.
>
> 3K RPM from a stepper?  Why are you doing this?  That sounds
> like servo territory.
>
> > What do the vibration engineers in this crowd think of this idea?
>
> Your damper pretty much has to work.  Some steppers don't
> need very much damping at all to kill the resonance.
> Or, a properly adjusted Gecko 201 driver will pretty much
> get rid of all resonance issues.  They have a pot you tune
> for minimum hum at a certain speed, and it compensates out
> the residual excitation of the resonance.
>
> Jon

Thats the first time in a decade or more that anybody ever talked about 
how that works, thanks.

In the advertising, it reads like salesman-speak. And I always take 2 
steps back when I read that language.  Part of my personal spam filter I 
guess. :)  That and a wee bit of Missouri in my DNA. :) 

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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