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After too much time I finally found the bug in my deceleration code. An "if" statement inside of an "if" statement that should have been outside of the first statement. I'm a bit rusty at coding. Use it or lose it, that's what happened.
It's working like a champ now. I'll test it on the mill tomorrow.
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I finally got around to trying it on the mill. Lots of torque, couldn't even slow it down by pushing against the table. Way too slow for a rapid traverse though. I think I'll look for a motor that's 200 - 250 RPMs. The one I have now will work for raising and lowering the head so it wasn't a wasted purchase.
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After looking around for a new motor and calculating what it would cost I decided it would be cheaper and quicker to just order a normal x axis power feed that's sold for a Bridgeport style mill. It should not be a lot of work to adapt it to my mill. At least that's the theory.
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Got the power feed today. Now to take a lot of measurements to see if this will actually work on my mill, with mods of course.
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I stumbled upon a 220RPM motor that had the same mounting as the 100RPM motor that I originally tried on the X axis. It claimed to have 30n-m of torque vs 3n-m on the 100RPM. So I bought one thinking it should be perfect and I could use all of the work I put into the 100RPM motor on this one.
I tested it out on the mill today and what a joke! It had less torque than the 100RPM motor has.
The standard X axis mill power feeds run at about 200RPM so this motor should have given me plenty of torque and a decent rapid movement speed. It's going back to Amazon.
Back to figuring out how to mount the Vevor power feed.
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(12-18-2023, 02:58 PM)EdK Wrote: I stumbled upon a 220RPM motor that had the same mounting as the 100RPM motor that I originally tried on the X axis. It claimed to have 30n-m of torque vs 3n-m on the 100RPM. So I bought one thinking it should be perfect and I could use all of the work I put into the 100RPM motor on this one.
I tested it out on the mill today and what a joke! It had less torque than the 100RPM motor has.
Ed
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(12-18-2023, 05:03 PM)Highpower Wrote: (12-18-2023, 02:58 PM)EdK Wrote: I stumbled upon a 220RPM motor that had the same mounting as the 100RPM motor that I originally tried on the X axis. It claimed to have 30n-m of torque vs 3n-m on the 100RPM. So I bought one thinking it should be perfect and I could use all of the work I put into the 100RPM motor on this one.
I tested it out on the mill today and what a joke! It had less torque than the 100RPM motor has.
Ed
If it sounds too good to be true...
Yea, I bought one and am sending it back because it sounded like it was going to fall apart. The second one was a bit quieter so I gave it a shot not expecting much. They're both heading back to Amazon.
Ed
