IMO....no, for a production machine it needs to be a tad stronger. 200oz at 12 volts would be ok for hobby type stuff but not for something that you will need to rely on for your business. Once you have a setup you will find more and more things to do with it and in turn depend on it. For the amount of your stated budget I would spend half on a turnkey system and the other half on tooling and software. Keep the machine running and it will pay for itself soon enough. My homemade machine has been running for about a year now and cost about 1400.00 for everything. It hasn't paid for itself but I'm not far off. And cutting MDF makes one hell of a mess as I'm sure you are aware of....a good vac system should be included in your budget as well. But thats only my opinion...good luck!
Chuck
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