Talk:Linear actuator

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On April 11, 2008, user 117.201.49.3 removed a significant portion of this document (accidently?) including the images showing how an electromechanical linear actuator works. I merged the deleted content back into the current version and made the following changes.

  1. Removed comparisons of linear actuators to "other methods of providing linear motion". The definition of a linear actuator is essentially ANY device that produces linear motion. Therefore, there are no "other methods" (or if there are, they should be stated).
  2. Created a table of advantages and disadvantages with reference to each actuator type since it was not clear before which types of actuators were being referred to.
  3. Generally cleaned up the organizational structure of the page

- Rsteves00 (talk) 00:13, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

I added a photo I took of a linear actuator manufactured by Zaber Technologies Inc. I'm a wiki newbie and not completely up to speed on copyright issues, but I assume because I took the picture myself that I am the copyright holder? - Rsteves00 02:09, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

Looks fine. You've specified the correct copyright status when you uploaded the image. If you're looking for extra challenge points you could take several pictures of it in several positions and create an animated GIF that shows it in action. :) Thanks for the image. --Hooperbloob 02:49, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

I updated the entire entry to fix grammar and confusing sentences, and slightly changed the nesting structure of the titles to make them easier to follow. My major change was updating the electro-mechanical actuator section, where I added an animated image of an actuator in operation. The previous example was valid, but very hard to conceptualize to laymen (it also includes some design specific terms that are not industry standard as far as I know), and I thought a simpler example could be useful. I kept the old example and all information that was already on the page, but some of it is reorganized slightly. I also revised the advantages and disadvantages, as they were confusing with some applying only to a specific type of actuator, but not actually mentioning which one they were referring to. Bcraig15 03:03, 17 July 2007 (UTC)