Hey folks, longtime listener, first time caller.I have a small 3 axis mill which I've built, for the spindle I'm using a 1kw servo motor with a 94 tooth pulley stepping down to a 40 tooth pulley on the spindle. I've been trying to set this up as Stepgen controlled but the speed of the spindle is being limited. I'm a bit of a luddite when it comes to this and was hoping someone might be able to give me some idea of what my settings should be. I'm confused by how the top two figures come out of pncconf as low numbers the max_velocity and max_accel are usually 50ish or less after I open the ini file which then makes the servo rotate verrrrry slowly.
The servo has a max rpm of 3000 so my final spindle speed should be 7050. Currently the tach on the servo driver shows that I'm getting 1190rpm but it won't go higher than that.
- Should it be possible to run a Stepgen spindle at 3000rpm?
- Is there any advantage to running an analog output instead? Thanks for any help, Giles