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 [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
