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Gerald_D
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Username: Gerald_d
Post Number: 313
Registered: 11-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, October 21, 2006 - 08:00 am: | 
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Centent was the forerunner to Gecko (same designer). Apparently those Centents CN0142 / CN1043 are still on the market. What do you guys know about them? |
Gerald_D
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Username: Gerald_d
Post Number: 659
Registered: 11-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, December 24, 2006 - 09:05 am: |
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www.centent.com is still quite active. The CN0165 is the current microstep stepper drive. The literature on this drive is very informative to those of us trying to learn about drives and steppers in general.
(Centent was run by the father of Mariss. The father passed away and his share went to another son (Leonid?) who now runs Centent. Mariss left and started the competing Gecko company based on his earlier work in the family Centent) |
Kim Mortensen
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Username: Inwonder
Post Number: 29
Registered: 12-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 30, 2007 - 02:10 am: |
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Gerald....
Do you have any pricing on the Centent Drives... And are they just as good as the Gecko's perhaps even better..???? |
Gerald_D
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Username: Gerald_d
Post Number: 789
Registered: 11-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 30, 2007 - 07:43 am: |
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Havn't got the faintest idea. Started the thread to see if there was anyone else with real experience that could tell us more. |
Kim Mortensen
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Username: Inwonder
Post Number: 32
Registered: 12-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 30, 2007 - 08:36 am: |
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I actually like the centent Drives, they are also very small, but it seems lige the 165 can pull a lot more current pr. phase, up to 20 Amps... That's alot. Then one is secured for bigger builds in the future... |
Gerald_D
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Username: Gerald_d
Post Number: 792
Registered: 11-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 30, 2007 - 08:56 am: |
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Surely you mean 10 Amps, not 20? |
Kim Mortensen
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Username: Inwonder
Post Number: 34
Registered: 12-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 30, 2007 - 09:04 am: |
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Ohh sorry, I read that it could take motors that drew 20 Amps pr. fase... My bad... hehe, but still a nice piece of equipment.. I'm hoping to get some response from centent sometime later today... |
Gerald_D
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Username: Gerald_d
Post Number: 794
Registered: 11-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 30, 2007 - 09:16 am: |
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Sure, it will take a 20Amp motor....but it will only give the motor 10Amps or less 
(Actually, there is nothing wrong with driving a motor at less that its rating. I do it with the spindle motor at home where I only have a 2.2kW drive feeding a 3.5kW spindle. It would have been silly to buy a 2.2kW spindle for 10% less cost and then be limited where I can use it.) |
Kim Mortensen
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Username: Inwonder
Post Number: 35
Registered: 12-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 30, 2007 - 09:36 pm: |
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OK, no I have recieved an Email back from Centent. not something I'm going to buy. Very very expensive. Geckos is the obvious choise so far.
This is the Email I got from Centent.
The 1-3 piece price for the CN0165 Microstep Drive is $550 each, and the 4-9 piece price is $525 USD apiece. Our terms are paid in advance FOB Santa Ana, CA, USA. We accept US funds checks, Visa/MasterCard credit cards, or you can wire the remittance if you prefer. Bank routing information is available upon request should you choose to wire your payment.
The total for four units would come to $2100 USD + shipping to Denmark. Federal Express quotes us approximately $127.64 USD for their 2-business day service to ship the 3 kg. package to Copenhagen, so that the total including shipping would approximate $2227.64 USD. |
Gerald_D
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Username: Gerald_d
Post Number: 800
Registered: 11-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 30, 2007 - 09:45 pm: |
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Ouch! |
Kim Mortensen
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Username: Inwonder
Post Number: 36
Registered: 12-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 30, 2007 - 11:56 pm: |
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Yeah Ouch....
Definetly not something I'm going to invest in... That's almost the entire pricing of my Mechmate when it's done... So Geckos, here I come...*GGGGGG* |
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