Geckodrive G251X / G201X or Leadshine AM822?

[Agathon]

Those gecko's use a similar technology to older leadshine DM drives (or the many copies of). Good drives, but you'll pay far more for Gecko than a comparable Leadshine in the UK.

For a similar price in the UK, Leadshine EM drives (EM's superseded the AM) have far better performance than the Gecko's, and more features.
Based on buying 2 or more, a G201X is £97.84, a EM806 is £87.78 (Both 80VDC, but 7A v 8.2A)
G251X is £60.57, and a EM503 is £69.30. (Both 50VDC, but 3.5A v 4.2A)
(all those prices are excluding VAT, as charter only show exc. VAT)

As much as I dislike suggesting them after their dodgy Zapp domain redirecting escapade, cnc4you are probably the best option for a UK source of drives similar to Leadshine DM's, as Zapp only sell the smaller DM drives. They do have bigger Kinco drives, but they're a similar price to AM's.

Thanks for the reply. After talking to Gecko tech support the G251X looks like it will do what I want. Charter Controls give a 15% discount to users of this forum so including vat and delivery the G251Xs work out at £73 each.

However, I take your point about old technology. If the CNC4YOU CWD556 drives are Leadshine clones then I guess they might be worth considering - including postage they come out at £59 each.

Then again, after doing a little more research on RATTM Motor, I find that their DM556D drives are also Leadshine clones and appear to come from the same factory as the CNC4YOU drives. At £104 for 3 including shipping from Germany these make even more sense. (I bought my psu from them and it was held in UK stock and was very good vfm.)

It seems that it's all a bit of a lottery really. I don't think anyone can be sure of the quality of anything coming out of China without buying direct from the manufacturer or their agents. Leadshine state that there are many fake versions of their products on the market and won't support anything bought outside of their official dealership network.

The one thing that can be said for the Geckodrives is that the quality control appears to be good and, as stated in other places on this forum, their aftersales support is exceptionally good.

I think I'll sleep on it.