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Re: Motorized Slide for non-STEM project
Engunneer - That is a neat option, but with schedule pressures looming, I'm going to pass for this project. Too many unknowns for a first time rush job.
Don - I purposefully need to be a little bit vague to protect IP. The speeds are closer to your faster 24"/sec speed than they are to the slower 1"/sec speed you tossed out. We aren't (re)creating an IBM Selectric typewriter type-ball driver; but we also aren't building a log splitter.
Typically, the objects being moved will spend siginificantly more time at rest than they will spend in motion; but smooth complex motion (at non-glacial speeds) is a part of the requirements set too.
If one or two of the vendors anyone recommends turn into a dead-end, that will be OK. It's in the nature of the beast for this situation.
Blake
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