Re: Bridgeport servo motors

Jon,
Which Ameteks are you talking about? From what I have been reading
(and a lot has filtered thru my brain in the past week! ~ so forgive
me if confused)...The Ameteks mentioned on here are only good for 60
IPM when geared down to get the required torque. I will eventually be
using the BOSS in a commercial capacity and want the added speed,
especially for cutting AL.

-Brady

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com, Jon Elson <elson@p...> wrote:
> Polaraligned wrote:
>
> >I don't understand Jon. I have a peak torque of 600 oz-in
> >(37.5 in-lb). Are not the commercial retrofits using
> >about this value as their continuous torque? I was thinking
> >I need to gear it down to raise my continuous torque, whose
> >value I do not know.
> >
> >Also using a heavy belt is bad thing. You want the belt to snap
> >in the event of a crash.
> >
> >
> You want to be snapping $30 belts every time you hit the wrong
button?
> Well, I guess that's better than bending your leadscrew into a
pretzel!
> Unless you really feel you need rapid feeds at 1000 IPM or 5+ G
> acceleration,
> I just don't see the need for such power on smaller machines. But,
then
> we have a mix of home-shop, home-manufacturing and commercial
> retrofit projects being discussed here, and sometimes I can't keep
track
> of who's who.
>
> Jon