NI Stepper motor

[Saridar]

Hi all,

I wan t to have an stepper motor with a built-in encoder. something like ST34-8E from NI. But I'd like to know if it is crucial to drive that buy NI products or I can use any other third party product? I am thinking to use a Gecko power driver and Arduino Uno to drive and control it. It is much cheaper than using NI Compact RIO.

Thanks,

Saridar

[Knoxberry]

Have you seen the new SMD series of stepper motor drives? They are low cost and couple with the integrated stepper motors (ISMs) directly. You wouldn't have to worry about setting up another 3rd party drive with the ISM. They also accept Step/Direction CW/CCW commands you could send from your arduino. Keep in mind, any trajectory generation/ motion profiling will have to be developed by you. One of the benefits of using CompactRIO or our PCI/PXI motion controllers is that you can use the motion software we've already developed in LabVIEW. Let me know if you have any questions!

Regards,