Full Version: Maximum Engraving speed of legend 32

From: James (TILER02) [#1]
 12 Sep 2006
To: ALL

Does anyone know the maximum engraving speed of an epilog legend 32? I just called tech support and they would not answer that question. :O 

From: Stunt Engraver (DGL) [#2]
 12 Sep 2006
To: James (TILER02) [#1] 12 Sep 2006

James,

I would think there are two maximum speeds:

1) Maximum speed, according to software/hardware specs.

2) Maximum speed at which high quality engraving can be run, which could vary from job to job.

EDITED: 12 Sep 2006 by DGL

From: PenTrophy (PENINSULATROPHY) [#3]
 12 Sep 2006
To: James (TILER02) [#1] 12 Sep 2006

The major factor for asking about speed of a machine is the material being engraved and the power of the machine.

Epilog has a great speed comparison chart versus money you can earn in a year if you buy their machine.

I rarely run my machine at 100% speed. and of course you need to be engraving the full width of the machine to realizie the maximun savings...

From: James (TILER02) [#4]
 12 Sep 2006
To: PenTrophy (PENINSULATROPHY) [#3] 12 Sep 2006

The speed does not really matter per se. I have had this machine for a little over a year. It runs fast enough. I have never set this machine up in Photograve. In the setup it asks for the speed of the machine. I do not know what this is, and Epilog will not tell me.

My machine is a 100 watt machine, I run full speed a lot.

From: UncleSteve [#5]
 12 Sep 2006
To: James (TILER02) [#4] 27 Sep 2006

Don't know and just guessing, but in the Photograve help it may just define "speed" and give you an example or parameters to figure it out like a line x" long an y" wide or similar.

In other words, if Epi won't help go to Photograve for the answer....

;-) 

From: Boz (CHEDDARHEAD) [#6]
 13 Sep 2006
To: ALL

I just looked it up in the Epilog Legend 32 spec sheet. I believe it hasn't changed for many years. The maximum engraving speed on the Epilog system is 100% speed setting. I'm glad I looked it up. I thought the Legend 32EX went all the way up to 110%, but I got that confused with Spinal Tap's amp that went all the way up to 11 for volume. (devil) 

From: Harvey only (HARVEY-ONLY) [#7]
 13 Sep 2006
To: James (TILER02) [#1] 27 Sep 2006

I guess that no one knows, Be the first!

Draw a vector line 10 inches long, set the power to very low and the speed to 10%. Time it, and calculate it. (Seconds / 100 will give you the seconds per inch at max speed. Then 1/seconds per inch will give you inches per second for max speed.)

Then for gosh darned sure, post it.

From: Dave Jones (DAVERJ) [#8]
 13 Sep 2006
To: Harvey only (HARVEY-ONLY) [#7] 13 Sep 2006

I think I read somewhere that the speed and power settings in the Epilogs are not linear. So 10% setting for speed is not actually 10 times slower than 100% speed. They do that so that the 100 settings you can use from 1 and 100 give you more than 100:1 range in speeds. I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure I read that somewhere in the Epilog manual.

From: Pedaler (ROYBREWER) [#9]
 13 Sep 2006
To: James (TILER02) [#1] 27 Sep 2006

James,

The Legend 32 has a max speed of 100 inches/second. I could never tell how PhotoGraV uses the max speed parameter; I could never tell the difference between setting the max speed to 100 or leave it at the default 33.

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From: Harvey only (HARVEY-ONLY) [#11]
 13 Sep 2006
To: Dave Jones (DAVERJ) [#8] 14 Sep 2006

That would be unique and beneficial. New Hermes got around the problem of not being able to slow down the machine with a one byte number by making vector 1/10 the bitmap speed.

Everyone has their own method of getting around issues, but it gets confusing. (Why not just send out two bytes?) Even if it is an 8 bit processor it can be done.

From: PenTrophy (PENINSULATROPHY) [#12]
 13 Sep 2006
To: James (TILER02) [#1] 27 Sep 2006

According to the specs provided to Engravers Journal in a laser system comparison buyers guide. the Legend 24 EX and 32 EX have a max carriage speed of 120 ips. The 24TT is rated at 80 ips. May 2004 issue

EDITED: 13 Sep 2006 by PENINSULATROPHY

From: Pedaler (ROYBREWER) [#13]
 14 Sep 2006
To: PenTrophy (PENINSULATROPHY) [#12] 14 Sep 2006

Mark,

Although he hasn't fille out his profile yet, I'm almost sure that James has a Legend 32 which is slightly slower than the Legen32 EX.

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