For AI agents: the Markdown edition of this page is hardware/motors.md; the site index for agents is llms.txt.

Motors

DM amplifiers drive motors from other makers. One-touch setup carries a catalog of 1,180 motors with their back-EMF, resistance, inductance, pole count and current limits, so most axes come up without anyone typing in a value. For a motor that is not in the catalog, type the nameplate and setup measures the rest.

What works

• Permanent-magnet AC servo motors, 3-phase, with an incremental A/B/index, sin/cos, BiSS or BiSS-C encoder.
• Induction motors for spindles, pumps and fans, with or without an encoder. Field-oriented control with field weakening above base speed.

What does not

• Motors sold only with a proprietary serial encoder (for example Yaskawa Sigma). The amplifier cannot read the encoder, so it cannot run the motor.
• Stepper motors. Not a motor type in the system.
• Brushed DC servos are not offered for new designs.

An approved-motor list is coming

DM is building a short list of approved servo motors, each shipped with a ready setup profile so the axis runs as soon as it is wired. Until it is published, tell us the motor you plan to use, or the load, speed and travel, and we will name one.