CNC Spindle Speed

Hey everyone,

Got stumped once too many times with feeds / speeds not matching observed results…

…so I built a tachometer with an ESP32 counting IR light pulses.

Results seem to indicate my A350 give me the following speeds ( at no load )

M4 P100 = 11940 to 12000 RPM ( fluctuating across 1min of measurements )
M4 P90 = 10800 to 10860 RPM
M4 P80 = 9600 to 9660 RPM
M4 P70 = 8400 to 8460 RPM
M4 P60 = 7140 to 7200 RPM
M4 P50 = 5940 to 6000 RPM

Please note:
I have not verified functionality of code + ESP32 + IR sensor…but numbers seem to make sense.

I hope this is helpful to someone :slight_smile:

ALSO…FUSION 360 GCODE exporter seem to always set the spindle speed to max speed ( M4 P100 ) regardless…so be prepared to edit the file manually…until that get fixed… ( snapmaker team I’m looking at you guys now… )

Cheers
//O.

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