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Visit Applied Motion in booth #4180 at the ATX West trade show being held February 9-11, 2016 in Anaheim, CA. See the StepSERVO™ closed loop stepper systems in action and learn how these exciting new products can provide you with more torque and higher acceleration rates while running cooler and quieter than traditional step motor systems. You'll also have a chance to see the new SV200 digital servo drives in person.

Servo amplifiers need to be tuned to optimize performance for each application. This normally straightforward task can be complicated if the speed and torque requirements vary greatly during machine operation, for instance when there are distinct loaded and unloaded states. The SV200 Series Servo Drives provide a couple of useful options to resolve this dilemma.

Even though it's the smallest stepper drive in our line up, the STR2 stepper drive has some very big shoes to fill. It is the successor to the venerable 2035 drives, which was our very first standard drive offering and is still in production after 23 years! Fortunately for the STR2 it has an arsenal of performance benefits that allow it to outshine it's older brother.

Most popular hybrid step motors have a "step angle" of 1.8 degrees. The 1.8 refers to the angular distance between full steps and is a bit of an anachronism. Most applications now employ microstepping to electronically divide the step size to as low as 51200 steps/revolution. Nonetheless, another class of hybrid motors exists that provide a full step size of 0.9 degrees.