That is what I use this for,
it lets me know what happens at a set of standard settings. Even with simple things like cherry and maple there are several different species each, and even then each tree has a unique circumstance. Often when getting ten boards of the same species the grain will even be the same pattern as each piece came from the same bit of log in an order you can follow in the end grain seeing each with the one above and below. But buy more a month later and it will be a different log and may or not be the same species, so is worth a test.
Mahogany may be the most flammable I have tested, but hard maple s the least flammable and I have found a reasonable cut from even 100 full power though you want the fastest that makes it through and 1/4 inch would likely allow faster.