I've started looking at various components for cnc machines. Slowly piecing things together...
Reading the GE-Fanuc website. They list Spindle Motors, and Servo Motors. But if you click on each link, they appear to be the exact same thing, same name. Alpha i or Beta i.
So My questions is. Can a normal servo motor indeed be used to drive a spindle for a cnc machine say up to 4000-6000rpm? is that how it normally works? as they have position encoders built right in, seems which surely would be useful. Or is there more to this?
http://www.gefanuc.com/cnc_en/cnc_products/servo_drives_motors.html
Reading the GE-Fanuc website. They list Spindle Motors, and Servo Motors. But if you click on each link, they appear to be the exact same thing, same name. Alpha i or Beta i.
So My questions is. Can a normal servo motor indeed be used to drive a spindle for a cnc machine say up to 4000-6000rpm? is that how it normally works? as they have position encoders built right in, seems which surely would be useful. Or is there more to this?
http://www.gefanuc.com/cnc_en/cnc_products/servo_drives_motors.html