Who has a plasma table?

[cpierce18]

Any chance you can just change belt cog ratios (if applicable) to speed up your Z axis? that is if you have a belt reduction AND you still have enough torque to lift the Z.

I don’t have any belt reduction on my z-axis. I have the motor coupled directly to the lead screw. My motor takes 200 pulses to make one revolution. The driver for that motor changes that to 1,600 pulses to make one revolution, but that decreases the torque of the motor. The lead screw takes 18 turns to move 1 inch (5/15”-18). So for my Z-Axis to move 1”, my PC sends 28,800 pulses to that motor (1,600 x 18). I can’t really make it move much faster because I will lose the torque I need to power thru the grime and plasma metal dust that collects on the lead screw. I guess I’ll have to live with me inconvenience of the extra second it takes to lift up the torch.