Salute Rolf Kalbermatter, I would suggest that you take a look at technosoft. http://www.technosoft.ch/B2000/Welcome1.htm Erroll Brady
-----Original Message----- From: Michael Sachs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2004 7:30 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Motion control for small motors Hi Rolf, I have had good luck with products from a company called www.micromo.com they are actually a division of Faulhaber. They make a nice inexpensive servo/stepper controller as well as many small dc motors and also very cool integrated motor/drive/controllers. They have some labview drivers but I did not like them too much so I wrote my own. Mike Sachs Intelligent Systems ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rolf Kalbermatter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Info LabVIEW (E-mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2004 4:17 AM Subject: Motion control for small motors > Hello, > > I have an application where I need to control 21!! small servo motors. > They are from Minimotor SA, type DC-Micromotor Type1624E_012S with > according encoder. > > I'm considering to control them with a NI motion controller card. Of > course that will be quite a number of controllers so if there are other > options I would be interested to hear about them. > > The bigger problem however seems to me the drive unit. Those motors > have electrical parameters of 12V / 250mA max and for that it seems > not very useful and way to expensive to use the normal 3A and 5A drive > units found from NI and on their online motion advisor. > > Has someone experience with other smaller drive units for this type of > DC motor, good and bad and some sources where they could be bought? > > Rolf Kalbermatter > CIT Engineering Nederland BV tel: +31 (070) 415 9190 > Treubstraat 7H fax: +31 (070) 415 9191 > 2288 EG Rijswijk http://www.citengineering.com > Netherlands mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >
