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Re: So DC motors are obsolete!

From Tim Wescott <seemywebsite@myfooter.really>
Subject Re: So DC motors are obsolete!
Newsgroups comp.dsp
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Date 2017-05-09 18:17 -0500

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On Tue, 09 May 2017 12:19:15 -0700, gyansorova wrote:

> Talked to a motor manufacturer in Germany. They don't even do DC motors
> any more, no call for them at all. Just ac and brushless DC which is
> really ac under a different name. Apparently with a good ac controller
> you can get an induction motor to have the same torque as a DC motor and
> you get max torque at zero speed - all down to flux vectoring. So do we
> throw out our brushed motors.

Keep what you have, at least.  They'll work as well as they ever did.  I 
think that itty bitty brushed motors will be around for a while, at least 
until people figure out how to make itty bitty controllers that are 
cheaper than itty bitty brushes and commutators.

Industrial brushless motors with built-in controllers are getting more 
common -- one box with a shaft on one end and a cord on the other.  Give 
it power and commands, and it does what it's told.

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Tim Wescott
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http://www.wescottdesign.com

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So DC motors are obsolete! gyansorova@gmail.com - 2017-05-09 12:19 -0700
  Re: So DC motors are obsolete! bitterlemon40@yahoo.ie - 2017-05-09 14:30 -0700
  Re: So DC motors are obsolete! Tim Wescott <seemywebsite@myfooter.really> - 2017-05-09 18:17 -0500
    Re: So DC motors are obsolete! Randy Yates <randyy@garnerundergroundinc.com> - 2017-05-12 11:09 -0400
      Re: So DC motors are obsolete! Tim Wescott <tim@seemywebsite.really> - 2017-05-12 13:56 -0500
        Re: So DC motors are obsolete! eric.jacobsen@ieee.org - 2017-05-12 21:23 +0000
          Re: So DC motors are obsolete! rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-05-13 12:03 -0400
          Re: So DC motors are obsolete! robert bristow-johnson <rbj@audioimagination.com> - 2017-05-14 21:04 -0700
  Re: So DC motors are obsolete! Steve Underwood <steveu@dis.org> - 2017-05-10 11:45 +0800
  Re: So DC motors are obsolete! Frank Miles <fpm@u.washington.edu> - 2017-05-10 16:15 +0000
  Re: So DC motors are obsolete! herrmannsfeldt@gmail.com - 2017-07-18 14:40 -0700

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