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Subject: 
Stepper vs DC
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lugnet.robotics.handyboard
Date: 
Thu, 10 Dec 1998 23:48:43 GMT
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edmund <HO106@SINGNET.COM.SGantispam>
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after reading your mails, it seems to me that the dc motor is better than
the stepper motor. doesn't the stepper motor offer any advantages over
the dc motor? is the stepper motor that bad?


edmund.



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  Re: Stepper vs DC
 
(...) Actually, steppers do have some advantages. 1) If you do not have encoders on DC gearhead motors (or wheels, etc) they are notoriously hard to position accurately. Steppers can be controlled very accurately. Most servo motors cannot rotate (...) (26 years ago, 10-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)

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