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What does speed actually mean?
Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2015 2:45 pm
by weeb
In setting up cutting power on the X7 can someone tell me what speed 100 actually is. I have seen post from Marco stating cutting acrylic ahould be somewhere between 1 to 5 mm/s. What does 100.00 mean, what measurement does it refer to?
Re: What does speed actually mean?
Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2015 2:49 pm
by Tech_Marco
Speed: 100 = 100mm/s or roughly 4" per second
BTW, no body can cut through acrylic at 100mm/s unless he can get 300W or 500W laser
For a 60W tube as example, one can cut through 6mm at about 10~12mm/s which is quite normal
Marco
Re: What does speed actually mean?
Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2015 2:10 am
by weeb
Thank you Marco.
Thats exactly what I needed to know, no wonder it was taking so may passes to cut. Feel kind of stupid now.
Many thanks.
