Fairfield, OH – Maintaining yaw and pitch drives is a challenge because of the inherent time that it takes for maintenance personnel to ascend to the nacelle. But foregoing maintenance can lead to ...

Here’s a nice little circuit that will drive a motor and allow you to stop its rotation, giving your robot a set of brakes. It’s part of [JM’s] post about the in’s and out’s of building ...

Designed to rapidly stop or hold heavy-duty loads, the company’s enhanced, integral fail-safe electromagnetic brakes have been coupled with its five-phase stepper motors to produce the AM brake motors ...

MagnaShear maintenance-free, no-adjustment motor brakes from Force Control Industries employ oil shear technology, which the company says provides longer service life in demanding applications like ...

Background: Traditionally, mechanical brake and air-supply systems have provided brake control to processors unwinding or holding back a strand or web. But air brakes and their air-supply system don’t ...

Nexen Group’s Eclipse Servo Motor Brakes offer distinct advantages over spring-engaged, electrically-released brakes. With Nexen’s servo motor brake, no energy is consumed when the brake is disengaged ...

If you’re still getting used to the feel of electrically boosted power steering, you might find this next bit of news troublesome. Over the next few years, you’re going to have to get used to the feel ...

There's about to be a new name in lightweight, high-performance brakes: Orbis. If the name rings a bell, our 2018 test drive of a Honda Civic Type R had a set of Orbis wheel-hub motors fitted to the ...

British firm YASA claims its axial flux motors will make big power while eliminating the need for big brakes—at the rear of the car, at least. Regenerative braking means EVs rely less on their ...

Electric performance is about to be rewritten by a motor that does two jobs at once. Instead of relying on heavy rear brake hardware, a new generation of in-wheel units delivers supercar thrust while ...