AFAG GP-52/90 · Swiss DC gearmotor with integral tachogenerator
Swiss-built 90 VDC gearmotor with 52:1 planetary and tach feedback. From an assembly line that no longer exists.
- SKU
- MS-IP-0568
- Era
- 1950-2000
- Condition
- Removed from service, tested under load. Brushes at 60 percent. No warranty on tach output.
- Dimensions
- 52 mm flange × 180 mm length including tach
- Weight
- 4 lb 6 oz
- Provenance
- Removed from a Swiss watch-case assembly line in La Chaux-de-Fonds, decommissioned 2023.
- Category
- Obsolete Industrial Parts
- Tags
- gearmotorswiss-madedc-motorafagvanished-maker
A GP-52/90 gearmotor from AFAG of Huttwil, Switzerland — a small maker of precision drives that folded into a larger holding company in 1998 and stopped supporting the GP series in 2005. Ninety-volt DC armature, 52:1 planetary reduction, integral tachogenerator on the rear shaft.
AFAG built these for the small-parts feeder and indexing-table market that thrived in Swiss and southern German assembly plants through the eighties. The construction is unmistakably of that place and time: brass nameplate, hand-lapped brush track, and a machined aluminum housing you could not have manufactured for the money at any point after 1990.
We've run it for two hours under proportional load. It hums.
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