Ferrettronics

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Has anyone tried out the servo and stepper controllers from
www.ferrettronics.com ? What they offer looks really interesting. Like 5
servo's serial controlled with only 2 i/o lines. They can even be daisy
chained up to 255 servo's all controlled with only 2 i/o lines. They have a
stepper controller with similar features.

Cory

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At 02:36 PM Tuesday 12/12/2000 -0700, you wrote:
>Has anyone tried out the servo and stepper controllers from
>www.ferrettronics.com ? What they offer looks really interesting. Like 5
>servo's serial controlled with only 2 i/o lines. They can even be daisy
>chained up to 255 servo's all controlled with only 2 i/o lines. They have a
>stepper controller with similar features.
>
>Cory

Cory -

The Ferrettronics units are one option, but the PAK-8 can operate 8 channels.
The PAK-8 can be found here: [noparse][[/noparse] http://www.al-williams.com/awce/pak8.htm ]

Regards,

Bruce Bates

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I have used their servo chip and it works very well. The only
complaint I have is that you can't turn it off. Meaning that the chip
is always sending a signal to the servos. If you're using hacked
servos for robotics it's hard to find the dead spot so that the servo
stops. At lease I can't find a way to stop it.

Mike


>Has anyone tried out the servo and stepper controllers from
>www.ferrettronics.com ? What they offer looks really interesting. Like 5
>servo's serial controlled with only 2 i/o lines. They can even be daisy
>chained up to 255 servo's all controlled with only 2 i/o lines. They have a
>stepper controller with similar features.
>
>Cory