Physics physically persuades personal preferences per particular pretenses. What data defines this? I went to college once, I delivered a helium tank to a frat house. Just out of curiousity, does anyone find the sortability of the tables in the wiki useful? I suspect that this is going to be like one of those college courses where I struggled to understand things, finally achieved an understanding of things, wrote out my understanding, and found that it then pretty much matched the initial text which I found so confusing. I did load all the data from your sortable table into my Estlcam setup so that I have a starting point from a verified source 1 I trust and can be called a friend. Seems like you are calculating the data? I gave up on G-Wizard also, way too complicated for my lack of machinist ability. I would like to fill in this post with additional information as it is found, puzzled out, derived or asked about. Logically, when doing conventional milling, the feed rate is effectively added to the effective speed of movement of the circumference of the endmill against the material, while in climb milling, it should be subtracted and if one could move the machine at a feed rate equal to the SFM, then the rotation and movement would cancel out and the endmill would just revolve around the perimeter of where it should be cutting, as if it were a wheel. Roger thanks.Material being cut - this should be groupable into a couple of categories, ideally matched up with typical endmill manufacturer recommendations. Or does it have something to do with speed of cut by the software? And the two routers supported by the Shapeoko 3 both have internal speed controls. I find it hard to believe it would not work great here for some fine tuning.
Works great for for fine tuning cuts on a router table setup. New here but this old wood worker has used a router speed controller for many moon. Neither of which has any relation to the trust worthiness of a vendor. To people who might look stuff up on the internet, well-known names are gained from branding and over advertising, and google top picks are gained from tags placed by those advertisers who simply want to draw those who look for a top pick to them. Good Luck Sorry WIll if this is considered a rant, I think people who blindly trust will fall and get hurt. I bought a cheap center punch that turned out very poorly designed and they refunded it and did not ask me to return it. Grizzly is at least low priced and does have excellent customer service. I bought a brand new carpenter square from harbor freit and it is farther out of square than a rough cut piece of plywood on my 35 yr old table saw. Will said he was going to clarify it on the wiki. I think this needs to be made very clear. The VFDs actually tie into the electronic speed control, include a device to measure the current RPM, and will adjust current to maintain the desired RPM as torque requirements fluctuate when cutting. Actually I bought G wizard, just to help with the headache.
Most people are able to make it work quite well on wood, metals, and plastics…maybe we can help you get a speed and feed that will work for you? That said, beyond the speed knob on the router, your only option is something like SuperPID - which can get you down to about 5k.