ClearPath: Teknic's Integrated Digital Brushless Servo Motor and Drive
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- Never heard of Teknic's ClearPath all-in-one servo motor and drive? Watch this video to learn about the power, price, and performance advantages of this groundbreaking advancement in motion control technology.
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ClearPath is a complete, brushless, servo motor system-all in one compact package. With ClearPath, you can precisely control position, speed, and torque with a minimal amount of wiring and other setup. Not to mention, ClearPath is at price that finally makes servo control affordable for any motor control application.
This overview video shows different applications, controllers, and configurations for ClearPath. The video demonstrates ClearPath's power, smoothness, ease of use, accuracy, reliability, and more. Examples of ClearPath's different operational modes are included, as well as fields that these operational modes can be used in.
Looking for an easy way to command complex sequences of point-to-point moves without an expensive motion control indexer? Use a PLC with ClearPath's incremental positioning modes.
Need a replacement for your stepper motor because it loses steps or stalls? ClearPath "Step and Direction" (SD) will give you high performance and robust servo control. ClearPath SD will be a drop in replacement for a stepper-without requiring you to change your software.
Skip to the 4:02 mark to get a demonstration of ClearPath's state of the art performance. The demonstration includes a ClearPath hooked up to a linear stage driving a carriage that has a breakable, acrylic rod mounted to it. Watch as ClearPath can accurately drive the rod through a slot (just big enough in size) on a spinning disk (driven by a second ClearPath).
The video also discusses the power density of ClearPath. ClearPath power, efficiency, and ruggedness is compared to that of a variety of different motors such as AC induction motors, stepper motors, and DC brush motors.
ClearPath is manufactured in Rochester, New York. Receive a 90 day money-back guaranty as well as a 3 year warranty.
We are now also looking at integrating these motors into our printers with 50:1 gearboxes to get sub micron precision and accuracy.
Hi Gizmo 3D,
Thank you for considering the ClearPath servo motors for your 3D printers!
Feel free to reach out to support@teknic.com and one of our application engineers will be happy to help answer any questions that come up.
Brendan
love how you have therapeutic vibrators in your list of suitable applications ;) keep up the great work guys!
This video is a freakin masterpiece, who made it? I need to be their friend.
Thanks so much for the nice compliment. We make all of our own videos in-house and try our best to make informative, interesting, and well made videos. Stay tuned because we will be releasing more videos very shortly and throughout the summer.
keep it up you guys :)
The demonstrations alone are impressive enough that there has not once been an objection raised during a meeting when I followed "this is why we are going to use Teknic's products and expertise for the motion control of system x" with the demonstration segments of these videos (note: "we are," not "we should" - because I already know what the answer is going to be once they see the demonstration). I've watched most of these (Teknic) videos several times and have (successfully) used them in presentations as selling points for your products and-more reassuringly-your expertise (skipping to the demonstration segment of the video for brevity). It would be fantastic if you did a series of shorts that are the demonstrations only (e.g., this video from ~4:00-5:30) with links/annotations to the full-description video. Stylistically, you might consider giving the "series" a name and a series-specific opening sequence. It would make it easier than jumping around in TH-cam to get to the selling punch during a presentation, or telling a collaborator/colleague "search for Teknic on TH-cam, find the video called something about g-stop controller, and just skip to about 7:20." Clear, concise, and elegant media is worth its weight in co-ops. I personally appreciate all the details your videos provide, but most of the time-particularly when I'm trying to impress your expertise on someone during a conversational tangent-it is too much information for the moment/situation (i.e., they can watch the full video when they have more time, and the demo segment is enough to get their attention and make them want to watch the full video). Just a thought!
Hi Rory Hamilton, Thank you for your feedback and positive comments about Teknic. We have discussed the idea of creating more lab and application demos, so I'll bring your suggestion to our video team. That being said, these types of videos can be challenging when considering what to include and exclude to make the demos concise, yet fully informative. There will likely be much more planning and discussion required before (if) these videos are created.
Currently, we're working on more tutorial-style videos in a series called "TekTips". These videos contain "how-to" tips and instructions as well as additional demos.
Thank you again for the feedback. It's very valuable to us to receive comments and suggestions from our viewers.
-Bridgette G.
That's a great product!
SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!!!! This is awesome! Talk to you guys soon!! :-)
Hi Johnathon - I am glad the ClearPath motors caught your interest. Please feel free to give us a call if you have any questions about the products.
We are now seeing hybrid servos from chinese manufacturers for low cost entry level cnc machines. What are these hybrid servos and how do they differ from your servos.
Hi Z-add,
The primary difference is that ClearPath motors are fully integrated, AC vector, brushless servo motors, whereas a "hybrid servo" typically refers to a stepper motor outfitted with an encoder running in a closed loop manner. A stepper motor is designed to be run open-loop, so although it can be run closed-loop, there are a number of technical disadvantages of the construction when used in a servo system. On the other hand, the advantage of this type of servo is that motor (a stepper) can be made very cheaply, so the overall cost of a “hybrid servo” tends to be lower than that of a servo made with a permanent magnet, low pole-count, brushless motor.
Keep in mind, however, that there are significant differences in performance even between servos that are built using the same technology, so it is impossible to generalize about the performance of one servo versus another without testing them.
For more information, check out our website here: (teknic.com/products/clearpath-brushless-dc-servo-motors/) where we discuss the differences between ClearPath and other motor technologies.
If you have questions about ClearPath, I encourage you to reach out to us directly by making a contact request (here: teknic.com/contact/) or by giving us a call at 585-784-7454.
Best,
Bradley N. - Teknic OEM Applications Engineer
how can i buy 3 for my small cnc prototype? you can see a video about it on my channel,i will test it and possibly initiate a company for me soon.
TheFelipeaugustopixo, you can order directly on Teknic's website. Thank you for your interest in Teknic's products.
Before you waste time in these motors know one thing. I spent days familiarising myself on them only to find at checkout I cant buy any. Reason being is the firm only take credit card. After two emails I am finally told to go to motion industries and in doing so I loose money back guarantee. I pay more and they take longer to be sent to me.
One of these motor is over $500 and the established firm only take credit cards.
Hi James,
We appreciate your feedback to improve our e-commerce resources for customers and I will pass your suggestions on to our management and marketing teams. We work hard to make the information about our products, ordering, and services as clear as possible to prevent prospective customers from wasting their time if there is a reason they cannot move forward with our products.
Our webstore currently accepts all major credit cards such as Visa, Mastercard, Discover, and AMEX, but as you unfortunately found out, it does not accept debit cards. A notable reason for this is that debit cards have a higher level of fraud risk for the vendor (Teknic). We continuously evaluate payment options (e.g., PayPal, Venmo, Zelle, and even crypto), but each option has different transaction fees, costs, and risks with incorporating them into the third-party checkout modules we license.
Best of luck with your application and I apologize again for any confusion about our ordering process.
Best,
Bridgette O. - Teknic Servo Systems Engineer
I have my own website. I use STRIPE to manage payments. It accepts all cards and apple pay plus google pay. Your words to attempt to give reason for not taking debit cards. Fraud risk and higher fees. Dude your motors are over $500 dollars. Im sure the profit margin allows for your use of debit cards. 😂
Fraud risk. I never heard anything so crazy.
I offered to wire the funds direct into your account. You have not accepted this nor mentioned it.
My time was wasted on an epic scale.