I need a light duty linear actuator with 6" to 12" of throw and variable speed. It will carry almost no load. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
Utilize a timing belt with parallel slides for the guide, a brother Gearmotor and a Delta VFD for the most cost effective approach, depending upon the accuracy needed you may use the peak and valley of the pulley with a prox switch, + a prox switch at each end of stroke to deignate home position. PLC recommended MITSUBISHI FX2N may be located at www.condoelectric.com gearmotors at http://go.to/gearmotors
Suggestion for light load and high speed. The LinMot-P drive, an electromagnetic direct linear motor with integrated position sensing and bearings. Complete servo axis with "no mechanics"-simple and longlife. Special properties are the extremely high dynamic characteristics which we use in applications like fast flying knife cutting:
acceleration >200 m/s2 continuous stroking frequency >5 Hz short-time stroking frequency >20 Hz
