Our stepper drivers are designed and built in-house. As far as I know, there is nothing out there like it. In the same driver, you can customize how many steps you want to a much higher degree than most drivers. Since it is unique, here are the steps you will want to input in your controller based on our stainless ball screws and computer speed:

Ball Screw Calculations
Ball Screw is Metric 5.08 TPI
Stepper per rev 200
Micro Steps
2 4 5 10 20 25 50 100
2032 4064 5080 10160 20320 25400 50800 101600 Steps per Inch

Maximum Traverse Speed at 25000 Hz
738 369 295 148 74 59 30 15 Inches Per Minute

Maximum Traverse Speed at 35000 Hz
1033 517 413 207 103 83 41 21 Inches Per Minute

Maximum Traverse Speed at 45000 Hz
1329 664 531 266 133 106 53 27 Inches Per Minute

These are the resolutions with each step setting:

Resolution
(2 Steps) 0.0025"
(4 Steps) 0.00125"
(5 Steps) 0.001"
(10 Steps) 0.0005"
(20 Steps) 0.00025"
(25 Steps) 0.0002" Default setting on our machines
(50 Steps) 0.0001"
(100 Steps) 0.00005"

So, you can see, resolution can be incredibly small, but at a price of upper end speed.

I PM'd you. But I'd like to ask here as well for anyone else that can shine some light on this for me.

Lets say the highest resoltuion I need to run is 0.0005(10 steps). This means that depending on my Hz. I can run at either 148...207...or 266 IPM? Is this cutting speed or rapids?

Secondly. What do you mean by the Hz? Other than its a frequency. Thats all I know.

Sorry for the insanely obvious questions. :rolleyes:

The speed limits would be in your rapid traverse speeds. Cutting would be slightly less. Also, mechanical limitations from the torque of the steppers would reduce your accuracy while cutting at extreme speed.

Frequency is the speed of the computers printer port and the speed at which the computer can operate it at. Under Mach, ports and pins, you can select your PC speed.

Thanks!

PM'ing you with more questions.