John T. doesn't monitor this email list. I had to tell him about Gene's email the other day. Did it on IRC. Eric Keller Boalsburg, Pennsylvania
On Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 12:39 PM John Dammeyer <jo...@autoartisans.com> wrote: > > From: Greg Bernard [mailto:marzetti...@gmail.com] > > > > Big John Thornton is a Mesa reseller and a enthusiastic contributor to > the > > Linuxcnc project. Seems like a line of servos would be a perfect fit for > > him. > > I'll keep an eye out for his postings to get his email address. The > Bergerda stuff doesn't have smart serial or ethercat; only modbus. This is > one place where the STMBL drive kit really excels as an AC servo driver for > old iron where one wants to use smart serial. But the STMBL is definitely > still hobby with constant part shortages and a DIY flavour. > > Bergerda at one point was confused about one of my requests and quoted me > on motor plus driver and motor alone though. So it appears they are also > willing to just sell motors. Or I suppose drives for other motors. > > You can program in all the motor parameters into it. Test and then save > so it's there on the next power up. It can be done from a PC application > but I only used that once. After that I just did like they do and used the > front panel buttons. Much faster. In fact they sent me a short video > showing their engineers fingers setting up parameters on the front panel. > A quickly iPhone type video. That's the kind of support I was getting > which is why I'm so enthused about them. > > John > > > > > > On Mon, Mar 8, 2021, 8:52 PM John Dammeyer <jo...@autoartisans.com> > wrote: > > > > > I've been using the Bergerda motors for a while now. Brought in a > couple > > > of 7A stepper motor drives to replace a noisy whining stepperonline > model. > > > Surprisingly buying two with shipping was only $5 each more than the > > > stepperonline through Amazon.ca with free Prime shipping and it's a > much > > > nicer unit, bigger heatsink, no whine. > > > > > > Last year when I went looking for a VFD and 3 phase motor for my mill I > > > rapidly found that an AC servo with the same power rating as the 2HP > single > > > phase motor was less than a new three phase motor and VFD. And buying > > > direct through Alibaba even with shipping got me a motor/drive that was > > > cheaper than through EBAY. > > > > > > Because I've been so positive about their drives and support the > Bergerda > > > sales people have been asking me who would make a good distributor and > > > local supplier for the USA. I'm in Canada and I learned a long time > ago > > > it's not cost effective to import to here and then sell into the USA. > > > > > > Obviously the products they sell are not meant just for milling > machines. > > > Just about any automation project that has a need for motors would > work. > > > > > > Any suggestions? > > > > > > Thanks > > > John Dammeyer > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Emc-users mailing list > > > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Emc-users mailing list > > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
