Looks to me just like a stepper motor with integrated motor driver without feedback. Maybe the Mechaduino is more like a closed-loop stepper-servo. I have ordered some PCBs from DirtyPcb and will assemble them when they arrive. Hope they are as good as announced.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tropicallabs/mechaduino-powerful-open-source-industrial-servo-m https://hackaday.io/project/11224-mechaduino Ciao, Rainer > Am 28.05.2017 um 05:58 schrieb Erik Christiansen <[email protected]>: > >> On 27.05.17 16:58, Gene Heskett wrote: >> I think so too. But I am so used to thinking in in/lbs, and have never >> seen a formula or a chart that converts Nm to in/lbs, > > But on just about any full linux distro under your roof, you have: > > $ units > You have: 3 N m > You want: lbf in > * 26.552237 > / 0.03766161 > > The first is the forward conversion, the second is the reciprocal. > (Use "units -1" if that's annoying.) > >> so I've no clue if they might be usable for me. So what is 3Nm equ to? > > Most of the advertisements seem to be in oz-in, so to "imperialise", I'd: > > You have: 3 N m > You want: ozf in > Unknown unit 'ozf' > You want: oz force in > * 424.8358 > / 0.0023538506 > > Ah, now, that's substantial, in the size range I tend to look at. > > Erik > > P.S. As a side issue, I couldn't remember the imperial g, but: > You have: gravity > You want: ft/s^2 > * 32.174049 > / 0.03108095 > > Yes, now I remember using 32, back as a schoolkid, before we went > metric. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
