Details on the APS3000 (Machine and Materials):
Machine dimensions and possible spacial arrangement.- rock solid aluminum profile construction with open design for future developments
- vibration proof design
- dust proof design
- industrial quality German tracks and bearings, generously sized (a drop of oil from time to time)
- superb blank positioning and support system, no distortion
- 30 second blank setup, each blank is set up individually
- radical fast adjustment to different blank sizes
- fully trimmed nose and tail
- "Stanley knife" surface finish
- ultra high efficient and stress free cutting
- long life cutter (after 6000 surfboards it is still as new)
- 4 surfboards per hour with standard finish1
- top shelf controller unit with self diagnostics and on screen display
- 3 times over sized AC brush less servo motors
- clean blank change area, fast machine clean up
- highly advanced surfboard design software with "Shapers fuzzy logic"
- board positioning within blank on screen (minimal cutting depth in deck)
- all cutting parameters within design program on screen
- can cut flat, V, convex, concave, winger, stinger and so on
- flush and clean stringer
- board finish over 95%
- rail can be cut to 100%
- easy operation and maintenance
- safe to operate, cutter is out of reach
- one operator can control 3 APS3000's simultaneously
1 Standard Finish - It takes some of the faster shapers 6 minutes to finish, check and put skeg marks on these surfboards. Time varies from shaper to shaper.
Machine Controller Details
The APS3000 is designed for extreme power use and to achieve this we use Kollmorgen (see www.kollmorgen.com) drives and Kollmorgen 1100 watt brushless servo motors, mains powered units that run at about 15% of their capacity. this guarantees many years of service free fun without fatigue. we have the controller built to our requirements, a very powerful unit that gives us very smooth motion and enormous speeds and ramp values (programmable). this controller utilizes a micro-controller to perform the timing and interpolation functions for smooth operation under Windows.- Runs smoothly on any system that can comfortably run Windows XP Professional
- Fast Block Processing when machine is running (over 300 Blocks/Sec).
- True Linear Acceleration Ramp (programmable) throughout the 60 - 125,000 SPS range.
- Any Accel Profile is programmable.
- True 4 axis interpolation.
- +-2 Billion step Absolute positioning.
- 230 move First In/First Out Buffer.
- RS232 Intelligent Controller running at 115K Baud.
- Continuous Motion Contouring.
- full computer interface including toolpath and G-code
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