Quote Originally Posted by Rambozo View Post
Because of the tip outside diameter there will always be a limit to how fast a transition the THC will be asked to deal with. The best example I saw of rapid transitions was hitting the diamonds on a piece of treadplate. You could see the torch making height adjustments going over them. At the other extreme is the corrugated roofing material that everyone seems to use for THC demos. I notice most use the sine wave type, I wonder how some of the more squarewave patterns would do.
It's funny, but I had never thought about how the diameter of the tip would be a factor. Sometimes you get your head so deep in the software, you ignore everything else.

I would expect the square wave type wouldn't be nearly as good. What do you think the top speed is for a home CNC Ram?