Hello,
I have lurked here for a while, and have started assembling some parts to make a home-built milling machine. I bought a sherline z-axis with spindle on ebay about a week ago. I also bought a couple of linear stages that arrived in the mail today.
Here is my main question:
The linear stages I acquired came with what appear to be nice servos, but the encoders appear to have been removed. They are MCG servos that are rated at 9 amps. I called MCG and they actually emailed me the datasheet for it- I thought that was pretty cool of them. The datasheet shows that the motor originally had a 1000 line encoder. Under that, it says, "w/index & line drivers".
I would like to find some used/inexpensive encoders that will work with a Gecko drive. I have not ordered the drive yet, as I need to make sure all of my parts will be compatible before I start shelling out cash.
I poked around on ebay, and basically stopped because I was not altogether sure of what I was looking for.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Hopefully the cost of an encoder by itself will not eclipse the cost of a typical ebay motor/encoder combination...
I like buying stuff on ebay, but man, can I get carried away sometimes!
Thanks, Mike