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Re: Stepper Motors

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Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber View Post
That's the big issue. Once I knew what I was looking for in a controller and in a motor it became pretty easy to find things that would PROBABLY fit the requirements. [1] But a lot of the issues I ran into were because the specifications don't involve things like "torque" and "rpm" directly and instead involve new terms like "kv" and a handful of constants that I didn't know.



[1] Was looking sensorless brushless for cost reasons, ended up changing scale on the project and am using a pair of tiny brushed motors that, even with controller, come in cheaper than the motor.
So not really knowing much about Brushless motors (other than the basics of operation), what do they do better than the brushed counterpart?
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