Stuart Stevenson wrote: > Gentlemen, > My suggestion was to use a stepper of a type built like an > alternator. If that concept would be useful. Just throwing out ideas. > It may not be feasible but who knows? Definitely not me. :) > Even an 8-pole alternator would only have 32 full steps/rev. Since it wasn't designed as a stepper, who knows if it would even give properly spaced full steps, or what would happen if you tried to microstep it. One could try it and see. Of course, it is a 3-phase motor, so it would not work with any standard step motor driver.
On the other hand, using it as a brushless servo motor (except for the field brushes, of course) has some promise. The encoder would at least try to solve any problems with position error. One would have to add Hal sensors or use an encoder with commutation tracks. Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It is the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Xq1LFB _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
