By Steve Meyer Steve Meyer is the President, Solid Technologies (Lakewood, CO) What’s wrong with specifying horsepower for motors, particularly in motion control systems? Plenty. First, horsepower is a unit of measure for doing work, the rate at which power is consumed. If you were to measure power in a typical machine during normal operation, you would…
What does it mean when a motor or gearbox is “servo rated?”
By Steve Meyer Steve Meyer is the President Solid Technologies Strictly speaking, any control element that employs feedback is a servo. Therefore, what does the term “servo rated” mean when it is used in conjunction with a motor? And if used with a gearbox, does that mean that the gearbox must have an internal feedback device?…