NEURON THC - Plasma Engine; Steps in mm; Automatic Speed

USER MANUAL
Plasma Engine
Note for stepper motors: a stepper works in open loop, so it can lose steps from too high
running speed where there is not enough torque, or too high accelerations/decelerations or can
be a mechanical problem which causes higher torque requirement on the axis, or a combination
of these. Or it can be a power supply problem that the Voltage drops down too much when more
axis moving together. Or if could be the capacitors in the power supply not holding the voltage
(electrolyte dry out) causing more EMI which causes lost or extra steps. Please pay attention for
this.
Steps in mm
Description: The value is based on the counts of pulses for 1 mm torch move.
Automatic Speed
Description: This speed is used for all automatic rapid moves such as the End-of-Cut-Retract or
the Initial Approach to the workpiece. This value depends on the lifter motor speed, the screw
pitch, the weight of the lifter load and the desired speed of operation.
NOTE: The maximum ‘Speed’ value can be calculated using the following formula
𝑉𝑚𝑎𝑥 = 60 ∗
𝑓𝑚𝑎𝑥
𝑁𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑡
where 𝑓𝑚𝑎𝑥 is the maximum step frequency of the Neuron pulse engine 100 kHz and 𝑁𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑡 is
the ‘Counts per Unit’ of your torch slide.
Example: let the torch slide Counts per Unit be 3200. The maximum velocity is then
𝑉𝑚𝑎𝑥 = 60 ∗
100000
3200
= 1875 𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑠/𝑚𝑖𝑛
Neuron plugin will automatically reduce the maximum velocity if it is configured above the limit.