Direct Drive Mount by Planewave

[John K]

Just wondering if others had seen this:

http://planewave.com/products-page/mounts/l-500-mount/

It's a new direct drive drive mount product by Planewave.

John K.

[Atmos]

Looks like they've just removed one of the fork arms from the mount they use with the CDK800 :P

[issdaol]

Mmmm looks like it could mount a Mewlon 300 on one side and a TOA150 on the other side .....

[LewisM]

;););)

[Wavytone]

Looks like they use swashplate motors. Extremely high torque with a huge built-in reduction without using any gears. Feasible on something that size but not on amateur mounts.

[AndrewJ]

It looks way too thin for that
I think its more like a steroided stepper/ washing machine motor,
but precision made, and with a really really well designed encoder feedback loop.

Andrew

ed
and on digging into the planewave site, there is a writup on the motor half way down
http://planewave.com/technology/mechanical-design/