Tom Eldredge
All,
Yes, Rutex is still in business. I have been selling, shipping, and supporting Rutex products steadily since November 2007. For six months last year, it seems as though the home office in Australia was not responding to any inquiries. However it has been pretty good since then.
Yes, the Rutex drives are somewhat over-rated in their drive capacity. If you want to discuss your particular application with me feel free to call me at 573 341 1528 or email me at [email protected]. I prefer phone support.
In addition to selling them, I have over a hundred of the R2020 drives all over this continent working faithfully driving Nema 42 motors at 19 inch lbs of torque. The R2010 drives are very reliable if matched to the proper size motors. We have a document entitled "MOTOR and Drive matching" on the Rutex.com (USA) web site for downloading that should help in drive sizing.
I do not set the Rutex policies, and I do not make or specify the drives. I do sell and support them, and have been available for support daily for over four years. I hope that the Rutex product line will continue to be available for many years. This year Vladimir is working on making some improvements to the drives and filling out his product line, but it seems to be slow in coming.
Anyhow, we are here, and we still stand behind the warrantees.
Tom Eldredge,
Rutex LLC
(Note: The opinions expressed in this post are my own and are not necessarily those of CNCzone and its management)