Stephen Wille Padnos wrote: > Alfred Smart wrote: >> The gecko's are running wide open 7 amps, unipoler motors wired half >> winding. > > Are you sure those are unipolar motors? The geckos are bipolar drives, > and I don't see how they could work with unipolar motors. >
Five wire unipolar motors can't be used with Gecko drives, but six wire ones can (two center tapped windings). You can run full winding (equivalent to series connection on an 8-wire motor) or half winding. You can't do the equivalent of 8-wire parallel though. Regards, John Kasunich ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
