When making a choice when purchasing a machine tool, a lathe or a drilling and milling machine, there is the recurring dilemma of the advantages and disadvantages of the gearbox or the electronic variator.
All Weiss machines with variable spindle speed are equipped with brushless motors, which offer the triple advantage of reliability, quiet operation and high torque delivery. This is why we are promoting this modern, reliable and proven technology.
However, respecting the various points of view of the current manufacturers, according to their training, their experience, the use that they will make of their future machine, we decided to propose some machines equipped with purely mechanical transmission, i.e. gearbox; the main motor is in this case of the "asynchronous" type with starting capacitors and phase shift to allow the supply of the machine in 230V single-phase The advantage of a gearbox is undoubtedly the high torque at very low speeds, but it has the disadvantage of a high noise level during operation and the need for regular maintenance (draining, cleaning).