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Hi.
I just acquired a PALM Microbeam system build on a AxioVert 200 in mint condition. The system has a motorised stage which doesn’t look familiar to me (or anyone I’ve asked) but has optical encoders from Renishaw. The stage itself has no other markings than p-mt-02-086 stamped at the metal under the plate.

Does anyone happen to know who is the manufacturer of this stage or the stages for these systems? Any hints would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

>m

Zdenek Svindrych-2

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Any pics of the stage and the connectors of the motor and encoder cables?
Many XY stage manufacturers use (or used to use) Renishaw encoders,
including ASI Imaging, Prior, Dover Motion, and even Thorlabs...
Best, zdenek

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> Hi.
> I just acquired a PALM Microbeam system build on a AxioVert 200 in mint
> condition. The system has a motorised stage which doesn’t look familiar to
> me (or anyone I’ve asked) but has optical encoders from Renishaw. The stage
> itself has no other markings than p-mt-02-086 stamped at the metal under
> the plate.
>
> Does anyone happen to know who is the manufacturer of this stage or the
> stages for these systems? Any hints would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> >m
>

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Jacqueline Ross

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Hi Mika,

Since it's a Zeiss microscope, I think the stage is likely to be Marzhauser.

Cheers,

Jacqui
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Any pics of the stage and the connectors of the motor and encoder cables?
Many XY stage manufacturers use (or used to use) Renishaw encoders,
including ASI Imaging, Prior, Dover Motion, and even Thorlabs...
Best, zdenek

On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 5:01 PM Mika Ruonala <[hidden email]> wrote:

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ICIT

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Dear Jacqui and Steve,
thanks for your attempts to idenfity the stage. Märzhauser has declined to have anything to do with this stage.

I uploaded some images for you, perhaps they help a bit further:

https://imgur.com/gallery/GPKrKLY

I'm curious about the outcome of this trivia :)

Cheers,

Mika

Simon Kinder-2

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Hi Mika

It was custom made by PALM Microsystems before Zeiss bought them. This is why you are getting no love from the stage companies.

The newer version on their current microbeam systems might well also be custom made.

i assume you are trying to control it in some other software?

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Dear Jacqui and Steve,
thanks for your attempts to idenfity the stage. Märzhauser has declined to have anything to do with this stage.

I uploaded some images for you, perhaps they help a bit further:

https://imgur.com/gallery/GPKrKLY

I'm curious about the outcome of this trivia :)

Cheers,

Mika

Simon Kinder-2

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ICIT

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Dear all,

the origin of the enigmatic XY stage has been revealed, thanks to several hints from the forum. It is indeed a RoboStage I from PALM Microlaser.

Unfortunately, thus far I could not find the RoboSoftware needed to try it out on a XP machine (if someone has a source please let me know!). I also could not set it up in MetaMorph using the MTB so I'm currently adapting it to be operated with OASIS Blue card with EXBIO encoder add-on.

Thanks for the support!

Mika

Steffen Dietzel

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Hi Mika,

the label on your picture says EC Motion GmbH, so that is probably the
company name. GmbH is the German equivalent of LTD. And indeed,
https://www.ec-motion.de/ exists.

Looking at their web site my guess is, they produced only the stepper
motor and maybe the driver? But that is what you would need to control, no?

They still seem to have that motor on sale:

https://www.ec-motion.de/en/product-overview/2-phase-step-motors/42-mm/?no_cache=1&product=43

Good luck

Steffen

Am 28.09.2020 um 13:24 schrieb Mika Ruonala:

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> Dear Jacqui and Steve,
> thanks for your attempts to idenfity the stage. Märzhauser has declined to have anything to do with this stage.
>
> I uploaded some images for you, perhaps they help a bit further:
>
> https://imgur.com/gallery/GPKrKLY
>
> I'm curious about the outcome of this trivia :)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mika

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