

The ‘Mijn Melk’ farmers prefer a short, transparent food chain.

Farmers affiliated with ‘Mijn Melk’ process the milk on the farm independently, thanks to the Lely Orbiter. Reijer Rotgans’s dairy products are sold under the ‘Mijn Melk’ label: milk distributed straight from the farm. Milk is bottled within 24 hours and is distributed straight from the farm to the supermarket. The cows move freely in the barn and for at least 120 days per year, six hours a day, they can go outside and return to be milked whenever they choose.

They built a new cow house in 2014, which offers improved cow comfort and reduces environmental impact of the business. Sustainable farming is the starting point for everything the Rotgans do. Nowadays, growth no longer lies in market expansion, but mainly in adding value by extra activities.” This is exactly what the Rotgans family has found in the Lely Orbiter. The sector has plenty of unexplored potential. You need to have an entrepreneurial mind-set. He says innovation is key to future-proof the business: “Being a farmer involves much more than just milking cows. * LDO-36STH17-1004AHG could technically run at a higher current, but it gets very hot, and at over 0.35A RMS it could melt plastic parts around it.Reijer is the fourth generation of his family to run the farm.
#MINI ORBITER UPDATE#
I had it only for a couple of weeks, but I will update this post with a longer-term review.

I’ve put it in my Galileo extruder, and it performs just as well as the 20mm LDO motor. Looking at the datasheet, it has even better internal resistance (1.9Ω) and lower rotor inertia. Recently suppliers started carrying Moons 36mm 20mm stepper motors, and I decided to pick one up for my next build. I’ve been using it for over 6 months now, and I think it’s a great choice. It’s also a newer motor with a lot lower internal resistance (2.1Ω vs. The number difference in the model name refers to a slightly longer body length of 20mm vs. When I was building my Voron 2.4, I chose to build a Galileo extruder (Orbiter adaptation for Voron printers) and got LDO-36STH20-1004AHG to power it. The lower current does reduce its torque, but it still has enough to keep up with 300mm/s printing. Technically it’s designed to run at high temperatures, and it should be just fine, but I didn’t feel comfortable as it could melt plastic parts around it. I had to lower the run current to 0.35A to get it to a more reasonable temperature (about 60C). It’s a great little extruder with only one issue: it runs very hot. I used it to build Orbiter 1.0 extruder, and it works for me to this day, although it now powers Sailfin. The first one I got was LDO-36STH17-1004AHG about a year ago. There are also Sailfin, HextrudORT, LGX Lite, and many more designs using these motors. Orbiter and Sherpa Mini were the first popular extruders to use these motors, and recently even Voron Clockwork 2 extruder switched to this type of stepper. I have tested LDO-36STH17-1004AHG, LDO-36STH20-1004AHG, and Moons’ 36mm 20mm steppers, and I will share my thoughts on them. NEMA14 36mm round steppers are becoming increasingly popular extruder stepper motors due to their small weight and high torque.
