Acceleration needs to be 10-20 times maximum velocity I'd think. Actually the gantry will be about 100 lbs as a rough estimate.
JT On 8/20/2015 2:29 PM, Jim Craig wrote: > On 8/20/2015 2:12 PM, John Thornton wrote: >> I'm looking for some options for driving an axis at a maximum rate of >> 3000 IPM across a distance of 8' for the metric crowd that's 75 >> meters/minute for 2.5 meters. I don't need very accurate position and >> there are no cutting loads sorta like a big plasma gantry upside down. I >> do need encoder feedback to fire solenoids on the fly at various >> intervals. I'm thinking a jack shaft with either chains or belts to move >> the axis. > Maglev, HA, just kidding! > > I have chains driving my router. It works pretty good but it is no where > near that fast. How fast are you going to accelerate? If the gantry > weighs very much the acceleration/deceleration forces will be pretty large. > > Jim > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
