‘Stepper Drive’
An Engineeringtalk guide
Start with the news release
Micro stepper motors bring pictures into focus from
EMS, which we summarised at the time by saying "Electro Mechanical Systems has supplied Precistep micro-stepper motors to Life Optics to allow it to develop a compact, reliable and light-weight head-mounted microscope.".
Several months prior to that,
we featured the news release ABB drives reduce swimming pool energy bills from
ABB Automation Tech (Drives and Motors): "ABB drives have helped a UK holiday park operator save GBP77,000 a year on energy bills for its swimming pools. ".
In November 2009, we covered the news from ControlEng Corp
- take a look at Servosoft ECM determines energy costs
which says: "Servosoft now includes an Energy Cost Model (ECM), which calculates annual and lifetime energy cost, and provides a benefit analysis of adding more capacitance or switching to a regenerative drive. ".
Take a look also at the news release from Heason Technology, Actuator system for sampling applications,
as well as Liquiphant accurately measures liquid levels from Endress+Hauser,
and Solidworks CAD software used in blind car from SolidWorks Corporation.
Latest stories...
OEMDynamics enhances linear belt drive (November 2009)
OEMDynamics, a division of Animatics, has announced enhanced features on the HLD 60-H3 actuator.
CNC router reduces time to market (November 2009)
A manufacturer of personal care products has saved money by switching to a low-cost computerised numerical control (CNC) router that can produce point of purchase displays internally.
Centa offers bespoke transmission designs (November 2009)
Centa Transmissions can create bespoke powertrain designs for wind, wave, tidal and solar power systems.
Viscotec devises drive solution for dosage units (November 2009)
Viscotec Pumpen and Faulhaber have devised a drive solution for dosage units on a system that comprises a fast DC drive and high-precision piezo rotary drive, mounted on a common spindle.
ABB drives reduce chilled-water energy bill (November 2009)
Eight ABB standard drives are saving Ginsters bakery a potential 17 per cent annually on its chilled-water energy bill, following installation on chiller pumps at its Callington bakery in Cornwall.
Haydonkerk unveils programmable actuator with GUI (November 2009)
Haydonkerk Motion Solutions has introduced the Haydon Idea Drive stepper-motor linear actuator.
Minitec releases News 2009 brochure (November 2009)
Minitec has published its latest News brochure, covering products that have recently been added to its Profile System range of machine framing and building components.
Brushless servo motors provide 2,800-5,200rpm (November 2009)
The Ametek Pittman brand AB series brushless servo motors are available from Mclennan Servo Supplies in NEMA 23, 34 and 56 frame sizes.
Further reading
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Tough stepper drive fits into NEMA 17 motor
Parker Life Sciences has added a NEMA 17 size to its Integral E Series integrated drive and stepper motor product line.
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Stepper drives handle high-power applications
The NDC series of stepper drives offers ministepping, a built-in oscillator useful in simple move applications and operates from a DC power supply in the range of 24 to 75V DC.
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