Hey people.
Since a few days there is a question in my mind. The encoder strip you find on home printers, turning simple dc motors into servo sistems...There is a way of taking something like that to convert a powerfull ac motor with gear reduction into expensive servo? I have one 110 vac motor, removed from a copier machine, with 2 revolution per second and enough torque for moving a small go-kart from my son... with my on it.
If it is posible using long enconder strip from some big plotter machine or something like that, or better, home making one with standard kodak photo film stock (In that part i have no idea how to make it...) it will be awesome.
But from something i have to start:
How to they work? Does anyone now?
I´m sorry about my inglish...