Servo motors on Myplasma?

[Potus2000]

Hello,

It appears you can run either steppers or servos on Acorn, can you run servos on MyPlasma? Is there anything extra required or is it the same hardware and setup?

[weldguy]

You can run servos on pretty much any setup anymore using the Clearpath servos. They will connect to stepper drives and I have used them with success on older stepper driven setups. Setup is more difficult as you have to tune the motors but I have had good luck with their autotune feature. If you want to keep it simple and easy go with the steppers, can always switch to servos in the future and stepper motors are cheap and reliable.

[Potus2000]

You can run servos on pretty much any setup anymore using the Clearpath servos. They will connect to stepper drives and I have used them with success on older stepper driven setups. Setup is more difficult as you have to tune the motors but I have had good luck with their autotune feature. If you want to keep it simple and easy go with the steppers, can always switch to servos in the future and stepper motors are cheap and reliable.

Thank you for the Clearpath advice. I see your point and will probably go the route of steppers to start, knowing I can upgrade in the future.

[weldguy]

[jimsa]

It's good that we can use servos on the Acorn, I had the same question, but now everything is clear.