Hi guys
Getting closer and closer to buying a Desktop for our panel making business. I have two questions, which both have most likely been answered somewhere before but I didnt see this here in the Desktop forum so I will ask and hopefully some good answers will spring up.
First, a tiny bit of back ground on myself. I've been using a Probotix V90 for 2.5 years for my upstart panel making company (internally lit instrument panels for aircraft simulators, all made of acrylic). This machine has paid for itself many times over, but leaves quite a bit to be desired. For the price and the work that I've gotten out of it, it was a good investment! That said, I wish that I would have known how well the business was going to do because if I did I would have bought a desktop from the very beginning!
Now on to my questions.
1) Is there any harm in allowing this machine to run for a few hours unattended? What I envision is going into the shop early in the morning and having it run a routine while I leave and go to work (I am a bi-vocational business owner. 40 Hour week at my job and then several hours a week in the shop for the upstart business). Ideally the machine would run a full sheet of my parts and then shut itself off once finished and then when I come home for lunch I would run the next tool path and/or start a new sheet of parts depending on what needed to be done. So, a) is this safe since the machine will turn off the router and b) how long is too long to leave a machine? Four hours okay?
2) I would like to have the vacuum system controlled by a relay just as the router is so that it will shut off automatically when finished working. Has anyone found a way to do this with the Desktop? If so, what's involved?
Thanks for the answers and opinions. I know that without a doubt this Desktop will run circles around my V90 in all regimes (speed, accuracy, dependability, reliability, etc.) but having the ability for it to make parts while I'm out of the shop would boost my productivity to 10 times or greater per week potentially.
Looking forward to your replies!