Our goal is to have a linear feeder that can move ~11" in around 3-4 seconds.
We have a stepper motor we'd like to use, and we assume it can run at around maybe 3-500 rpm. That's why we thought using a belt drive would be a bit easier to reduce the need of gearbox etc.
I've done some searching, but haven't really found a good easy solution for us to implement our very raw prototype.
But we'd like to make something cheap first as always just to see if our idea will work. We have numerous ball bearing/linear motion supply distributors here, so I'm sure we can acquire parts fairly easily.
many thanks.