Motiontek, Canada

[djharris]

Has anyone purchased from Motiontek in Canada? (www.motiontek.ca) They offer both servo and stepper motor kits, which is better value?

Dave

[domino11]

Dave the Mechmate uses stepper motors. I do not think anyone has adapted servo motors to the MM chassis. You can also order Oriental Motor steppers through TRI-R Power Products supplies Oriental Motor worldwide from Canada (http://www.mechmate.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2022)

[riesvantwisk]

Dave,

Maris from geckdrive gave some solid advice on servo vs stepper, the short answer is that for our application and size of machine we should use steppers.
I didn't buy from motiontec.ca though, but I am sure if you buy steppers within the needed spec for the MM you will be fine. if you are not up to the electronics and finding it out, I would advice to use a proved combination of PMDX, Gecko and oriental/motionking steppers.

Ries