Not quite wasted I don't think, because the extra power gives you more acceleration which is important for keeping your speed up on corners and smaller arcs for plamsa cutting.
On 10/16/2013 11:48 AM, Marius Liebenberg wrote: > Yes Ricardo, mostly cost and simplicity. > I love servos but if I quoted servos for every machine I would be very > hungry and weight a lot less than what I do now. :) > I have never set up a machine with steppers that is not as accurate as > any servo. The only big downside with steppers for me is the speed does > not compare to servos. The last plasma I built with LCNC does 20m/sec on > the X and Y axis and about 8m/sec on the Z. The fastest that the machine > ever cuts is 8m/sec. The rest is wasted. > > > On 2013/10/16 05:20 PM, Ricardo Moscoloni wrote: >> Hi Marius, did you say that about cost reasons of steppers against servos? >> regards >> rick ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ October Webinars: Code for Performance Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60135031&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
