We don’t have any brushless motors so I can’t compare. I *did* get the chance to use a brushless motor with a needle positioning sensor at my local industrial machine dealer and it was pretty cool. Definitely easier to hit precise stop points than I expected.
It’s a bit tricky to go slow on our machines, but not awful. Judging by tapping my finger to a timer here at home, I’d guess it’s pretty easy to modulate down to 2 stitches per second or so – going much slower than that gets tough. And hard to start the machine at that speed since it would be low on torque.
For single stitches (like when coming up to a corner and wanting to hit it precisely) we always use the handwheel. Once you get used to feathering the gas pedal to make the handwheel move easily, it becomes second nature pretty quickly.
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