[Chipboy]

Hello everyone
I have been looking for a small milling machine for some time now, and am about to view a Syil X4 + machine, in the flesh as it were.
I was wondering if anybody out there had switched their machines over to using a closed loop servo system ?

Was it worth it, or was it just a pain with little or no gain in accuarcy or performance ?

i have seen various kits and such on the net and i know that installing some servo drives is not quite the plug and play thay make it out to be !!.

Also, has anyone heard conformation on the X6 release price and weather or not it will come with a brushless servo system fitted as standard ??

Cheers
CB

[neilw20]

The machine given it's spindle speed and rapids is a nice balance between speed and stiffness.
You can make things jerk around more quickly and you will just start using the whole thing as a big spring as you change directions.
You are usually limited feed speed wise by the size of the cutters used.
Only if you increased it to above 25000 rpm would the extra snappy servos be of any use.(nuts)
The steppers are fine. Only bad programming requires you to cut air at supersonic speeds.
Because there is no auto tool changer, higher speeds are a bit like trying to hitting a golf ball with a cricket bat.:withstupi

[syil]

we also will release the servo soonly. for X4 series~~~

[cliffy227]

http://www.cnczone.com/forums/showthread.php?t=89538