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24-04-2018 #21
Bad advise for several reasons and just shows how little experience CNC4YOU have.!
#1 The resonance directly on the motors will play havoc with the drives causing rough running. It will also Kill the motor bearings quick time.
#2 Bigger pinion will make go faster not slower.
#3 Bigger pinion will reduce resolution.
The reason for the ratio is two-fold.
#1 To increase resolution. Even a small pinion of say 15T (Mod1) will have a pitch of 47mm which is too high and will give a low resolution. It will go like the clappers but resolution or in simpler terms Smoothness will be rubbish and this shows in the cut. You want to aim for pitch between 10mm-20mm Max.
The CnC-router parts pinion I believe is 1" or if Mod 1 will be 25T which will give pitch of roughly 78.5mm with 3:1 ratio this brings down to 26mm which is still little high for me if want to do very detailed work.
#2 It increases the motor torque which is required to overcome the inefficiency of R&P.
Also, the belts help lower Resonance which affects motor/drive performance. DONT under estimate Resonance because it will and DOES cripple machines performance. This is why you'll often see recommend Digital drives because they handle Res so much better, but still they have limits and Direct driving R&P off the motor would challenge them and your abilty to tune the resonance out.
Edit: Just to go little further on why direct drive is bad idea and pinion sizes etc.
When using a machine it's important that you spec your components so that you have best performance while cutting. One important consideration with stepper based machine is that you aim to be cutting in the motors RPM range which gives best performace while cutting.
So if you have direct drive with big pinion and say your feed is low becasue say doing 3D work, then your problems start to multiply because now your motors are hardly turning. This scenario puts the motors/drives in place which isn't always good.!
Yes torque will be higher but do really need it while going slow.? However motor smoothness will suffer and this will often show in the finished cut which very much matters on say 3D work. OR affect the drives thru resonance causing rough running and others problems.
Hope this helps.Last edited by JAZZCNC; 24-04-2018 at 06:02 PM.
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