Abstract:
The effects of pulse width (tON), peak current (IIP), pulse gap adjustment (MA) and pulse interval (tOFF) on the processing accuracy and efficiency of PDC were investigated. The optimum EDM process parameters were determined by orthogonal experiments as follows: tON 2 μs, IIP 10 A, MA 1 times, tOFF 4 μs, processing time 458 s. The surface roughness Ra1 of YG layer was 1.04 μm and Ra2 of PCD layer was 0.59 μm. On this basis, the effects of PIKADEN high-voltage pulse control PP and high-voltage auxiliary power supply HP on the accuracy and efficiency of electrical machining were further investigated through single factor experiments and segmentation experiments. The results show that when PP is set to 11 and HP is set to 013, i.e. 1.5 A high voltage auxiliary current is added, the optimum EDM parameters of PDC are tON 4 μs, IIP 10 A, MA 1 times and tOFF 4 μs. The shortest processing time is 130 s with high processing accuracy, which is the YG layer Ra1 1.30 μm and the PCD layer Ra2 0.56 μm after processing. Compared with the optimum technological parameters determined by orthogonal experiments, the processing accuracy is not much different, but the processing efficiency is increased by 3.5 times.