Thread: idea for linear belt drive
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21-01-2010 #17
Is a 10 tooth pulley big enough to hold the belt on a quarter turn? That's 2 teeth.
Is it small enough to get any kind of resolution on a stepper?
A 15mm PCD pulley moves it 47mm per rev.
0.12 mm/step before you start springy microstepping, will that work for cutting alloy?
If you microstep can you rattle the PUL pin on the driver fast enough to get the top speed?
If you gear it down, do you move beyond the top speed of the motor?
Beginners don't usually play with the numbers, they just look for massive torque motors and hope that will make it right. That's why steppers are usually sold by the Newton meter rather than by the torque to speed graph.
130kg belt tension may exceed the permitted side loading on the motor shaft.
Can you actually get a big enough shaft inside a 15mm aluminium pulley without severely under cutting the teeth? I think you will need a bearing either side of it.
A little maths and understanding to find the best compromise before you build can save a lot of disappointment later. (Please assume a big grin smiley, the new editor restricts my smiley selection, sometimes it shows, sometimes it doesn't).
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