On Aug 16, 2006, at 8:16 PM, John Chung wrote:

> Any shops carry servos at a reasonable price?
>
Are you talking brushless servo motors like most of the discussion,
or radio control "servo" complete units, which are usually based on
brushed motors?

I gather that the former "servo motor" term comes from the fact that
this sort of motor with it's fine-grained brushless controllability
is used in the INDUSTRIAL scale positioning market (combined with
external feedback and controller electronics.)  The self-contained
RC "servo" is a bit of a misnamed thing (although perhaps like
Xerox and Aspirin, the mis-used term is now more common.)

BillW
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