Hi John, I would first consider belts - more practically steel reinforced urethane timing belts made specifically for linear motion. (Perhaps they have Kevlar or Aramid now also..) I'd contact Gates Belts. They have a free engineering service that will take in all of your information and spit out some recommendations. There are some belt profiles designed specifically for linear motion drives. I think they are called the AX profiles, but I may have that wrong. The Gates guys would know.
I've seen belts used in auto plants to transfer heavy transmissions parts and castings using linear belt drives at ridiculous speeds inside of cages (in case the parts come loose) - 24x7. I have also seen them used in press loaders that shuttle the parts so fast, that they are difficult to see. If they are properly sized they run for a very long time before requiring maintenance. Dave On 8/20/2015 3:12 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. > > JT > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
