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16315
hi all, there you all go again with all your emc vs/ mach thing again... :-) when are you people gonna bother about cutting stuff ?( ok,i am just joking,please...
jeetendra_g10
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Sep 1, 2008
5:40 pm
16316
what kind of control? position control or rpm control?...
jeetendra_g10
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Sep 1, 2008
7:49 pm
16317
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_qdZB9iGhU i am basically building the same now for cnc showroom purposes. should i expect even faster ,better performance if i...
jeetendra_g10
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Sep 2, 2008
10:50 am
16318
Having used both steppers and servos on various machines, I'd go with servos if your budget allows. Either will get the job done, but with servos you have the...
Ray Livingston
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Sep 2, 2008
1:25 pm
16319
i am a little bit anxious that i am looking for trouble and complications by going servo.i almost never see anyone complain about the g203v,and judging from...
jeetendra_g10
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Sep 2, 2008
2:18 pm
16320
... I debated the whole steppers vs servos thing for awhile. After talking with folks who are using their cnc's for applications similar to mine, I concluded...
Don Williams
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Sep 2, 2008
2:51 pm
16321
... a showroom model that cuts and carves in front of big industrialists. they are into melamine furniture,carved furniture,and concrete casts mould making. ...
jeetendra_g10
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Sep 2, 2008
3:31 pm
16322
... The video said 5 m/min in one shot, and 3m/min in another. I did not see any motion that loked over 1 m/min to my eye, but didn't have a really good scale...
Jon Elson
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Sep 2, 2008
3:52 pm
16323
... Good points! The two places servos shine (it really boils down to the same point) is in its ability to handle a wider range of speeds. That affects a...
Jon Elson
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Sep 2, 2008
4:02 pm
16324
so basically,could someone recommend a servo package from homeshopcnc for that piece of machinery? i suppose i will need 7:1 gearboxes...where to get those?i...
jeetendra_g10
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Sep 2, 2008
4:19 pm
16325
... Ray, I have a BP clone CNC machine currently using big size 42 steppers, it works fine but I'm considering moving to servos to get better performance. Can...
paultitchener
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Sep 2, 2008
5:53 pm
16326
I've been down the road of building a Stepper powered unit, and then moving to a servo driven one. Personally, I'll never go back to steppers. I was scared of...
H & J Johnson
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Sep 2, 2008
6:13 pm
16327
thanks jarrett. so,what was your technical level when you moved to servo? did you have any problems? whats the reduction ratio? what voltage do you operate on?...
jeetendra_g10
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Sep 2, 2008
6:22 pm
16328
No problem. I'm not sure what you mean by 'technical level'. I was having problems w/ the steppers losing position. I swore I'd never wreck a multi day job w/...
H & J Johnson
jerryflyguy
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Sep 2, 2008
6:44 pm
16329
Personally, I see no more "complication" with servos than with steppers. They both have good points and bad points, and things you need to know about to use...
Ray Livingston
himykabibble
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Sep 2, 2008
7:17 pm
16330
If you really want maximum speed, you want servos. Regards, Ray L. ... industrialists. ... in ... twin...
Ray Livingston
himykabibble
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Sep 2, 2008
7:19 pm
16331
Last I knew, Rick only sold one servo motor - 850 oz-in, which are the ones I just put on my knee mill. I couldn't be happier with them, and on a machine like...
Ray Livingston
himykabibble
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Sep 2, 2008
7:25 pm
16332
Paul, I used the 850 oz-in servos from homeshopcnc.com, with G320s. I have 2.5:1 belt reducers, 4-pitch ballscrews, and a 70V supply. Right now, I'm limited...
Ray Livingston
himykabibble
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Sep 2, 2008
7:31 pm
16333
Someone mentioned Yaskawa drives earlier in this thread, presumably meaning AC servos. If you wanted to compare them against a lower cost AC drive, you may...
striplar
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Sep 2, 2008
7:33 pm
16334
what i am looking for: situation: generic high performance motorisation package for 8 by 4 feet router tables estimated market : 4-5 total. rivals: gerber...
jeetendra_g10
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Sep 2, 2008
8:54 pm
16335
You are right about Yaskawa, they didn't even bother to respond to my sales enquiry for a 3-axis system so forget about after sales! ... motifs...
striplar
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Sep 2, 2008
9:06 pm
16336
I'm new to CNC conversion. I'm converting a Grizzly X3 bench mill to CNC and am having trouble getting my servo drives tuned in so they have enough torque....
Horton & Son's Mfg. I...
edhorton1958
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Sep 2, 2008
10:19 pm
16337
Try this: 1) Turn current limit all the way up. Set Gain and Damping to 9 o'clock position. See how it works. If it doesn't work smoothly here, you've got...
Ray Livingston
himykabibble
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Sep 2, 2008
11:45 pm
16338
... I agree. Get toothed belt pulleys from the usual suspects, SDP/SI or WM Berg. (Maybe even McMaster-Carr will sell to Mauritania) The "boxes" can be...
Jon Elson
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Sep 3, 2008
3:39 am
16339
now that i think of it,stewart platform algo is very simple.no need for hessian etc... view the mobile platform as a triangle. each vertex of the triangle is...
jeetendra_g10
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Sep 3, 2008
1:25 pm
16340
I do mainly raster milling... SLOW I spent quite a lot of time and handfuls of $ trying to get faster speeds. End results were marginal except for the piles of...
Jeff Demand
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Sep 3, 2008
5:59 pm
16341
yup,its actually 2 machines on one bed. g-code is not generated by a cad program.its generated on the fly,before each new work starts. the art works are...
jeetendra_g10
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Sep 3, 2008
6:18 pm
16342
is it mathematically and electronically feasible to resample the step pulse train at 192 khz,then time shift it ,to give a jitter free pulse train,before...
jeetendra_g10
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Sep 3, 2008
6:28 pm
16343
nothing new electronically. perhaps BOBs could have that feature. that way,almost any software on winxp could step dir . ...
jeetendra_g10
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Sep 3, 2008
6:37 pm
16344
... Uh - I think that article has nothing important to say about step pulse streams. As to the original question, I don't know that an outboard re-timer would...
Stephen Wille Padnos
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Sep 3, 2008
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