Originally Posted by millman52  Although it's more work, I'd get rid of the existing operating system including the tracing eye..... Get rid of the eye your table will take up 1/2 the space.
As to drive motors, Use what you wish. If it were me, I'd use steppers. I'm quite sure you can get in excess of 3000 mm per min. The cost is lower on the entire system & not nearly as prone to RF noise.
What is the cutting size capacity of your table?
I'd think you can keep your budget well under $5000.00 US. Unless you really go out there on software. |
Hi,
That is pretty much what i intend to do, remove everything, just use the mechanical table as a basis. Probably also convert to a ballscrew drive system on the heavy axis sinte the drive system there today is friction based. A metal wheel running on a steel beam.
I also wanted a stepper based system mainly beacause of simplicity but the decisionmakers want a servobased system. I think they are scared by the nature of open loop systems.
I think the cuttingsize is about 1 x3m if I'm not misstaken.
jpgdesign, that looked really like a good alternative, I'll present it to my superiors and see what they think of it.
I really hope i can convince them to choose a complete conversion kit.
best regards
Chris