April 13, 2012
Big! Like can of Pepsi! Triple stack no less, and the fun thing is when you hit it with a full 80 volts (in to the drive of course) it’s just about as quick as a bunny, and makes really fun robotic bunny noises.  At the end of the day, it’s going to get us well over 1000 inch per minute rapids. That’s pretty speedy.  rushdesign: In line with yesterday’s post, here is the beast of a motor that will drive the X-axis of the new CNC router. This is a NEMA 34 frame stepper motor with 1288 ounce-inches of holding torque. To give you a better idea of what that means, if you attached a foot long bar to the motor’s shaft, it could hold a 6.7lb weight in place on it. That may not sound like much, but torque is a weird unit to get a grasp of, and it is also going through a gear reduction on the machine, so in the end it is quite a lot of force!

Big! Like can of Pepsi! Triple stack no less, and the fun thing is when you hit it with a full 80 volts (in to the drive of course) it’s just about as quick as a bunny, and makes really fun robotic bunny noises.  At the end of the day, it’s going to get us well over 1000 inch per minute rapids. That’s pretty speedy. 

rushdesign:

In line with yesterday’s post, here is the beast of a motor that will drive the X-axis of the new CNC router. This is a NEMA 34 frame stepper motor with 1288 ounce-inches of holding torque. To give you a better idea of what that means, if you attached a foot long bar to the motor’s shaft, it could hold a 6.7lb weight in place on it. That may not sound like much, but torque is a weird unit to get a grasp of, and it is also going through a gear reduction on the machine, so in the end it is quite a lot of force!