RE: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: DeskWinNC, GeckoG210, Bridgett

If you check out the page I put up on the web you will se it lists 24 IPM as
both the maximum cutting rate and the rapid rate for X and Y. Z is listed as
12 IPM. On my machine the controller was shot and the control cabinet was
not even shipped to me so I can't verify these numbers. All I can relate is
that I had the Y doing 100+ ipm last night with the G210 Gecko drive.

I know that many of you don't feel that maximum rapid rates are an issue for
home shop use, but watching a table move 16" at 24 IPM is sure a waste of
time.

Tim
[Denver, CO]

> -----Original Message-----
>
> Tim,
>
> Wow, that is slow!!!! You'd want to plan your sequence of operations
> very carefully if you needed multiple tools on a large part. Like
> making a hole pattern, you might want to spot all the holes on one
> end, then change tools and drill, rather than "rapiding" (and I'm
> using that term loosely) from one end of the part to the other with
> the same tool.
>
> Just to see what 25 ipm is like I set my 300ipm machine down to 25 to
> get a feel for it. Frustratingly slow!!!
>
>
> Just a thought, that 25ipm isn't the max cutting rate is it? With a
> faster rate for rapids? I thought someone posted a rapid rate of
> 125ipm for the old BOSS stepper machines a while back.
>
> thanks,
>
> Doug
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