‘Stepper Motor Controller’
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 Q-Sys provides custom-designed motion systems from
Q-Sys: "Q-Sys offers a complete design-and-build service for all types of precision motion and positioning systems. ".
In November 2009, we covered the news from ABB Automation Tech (Drives and Motors)
- take a look at ABB drives reduce swimming pool energy bills
which says: "ABB drives have helped a UK holiday park operator save GBP77,000 a year on energy bills for its swimming pools. ".
Take a look also at the news release from Heason Technology, Actuator system for sampling applications,
as well as Fluke offers trial promotion of Ti9 thermal imager from Fluke (UK),
and Saft shows battery technologies for telecom market from Saft Industrial Batteries.
Latest stories...
DC motors engineered for transportation purposes (November 2009)
Rotron brushless DC motors from Ametek, engineered for applications on board heavy-duty transit buses, coaches and other vehicles, deliver long-life power solutions serving up to 60,000 hours.
Lifebatt offers high-power expertise (November 2009)
Lifebatt provides large-format rechargeable power solutions for a range of applications.
DTS system monitors power cable temperature (November 2009)
Lios has supplied its DTS system to a renewable energy company for monitoring the temperature of two medium-voltage power cables coming from a wind turbine towards the substation.
Weld controller manages three transformers (November 2009)
Merlin Control Systems has developed a version of the PWC8 range of weld control units that is suitable for multiple transformer machines, or more complex DC machines.
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.
GE controller firmware has online programming (November 2009)
GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms has released its Versamax Micro Plus controller firmware revision 4.0.
Igus energy-supply system comprises 200 products (November 2009)
Igus has introduced six product lines to its Triflex R system of third-generation six-axis robot energy chains.
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.
Further reading
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Stepper motor controller rides the PCIbus
The Deva 004 PCI stepper motor controller enables the position, speed and acceleration of stepper driven axes to be controlled from a PC compatible computer.
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Stepper motor controller/driver steps at 13kHz
The PD 626 is a low cost integrated controller and driver for stepper motors.
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