Centroid Community CNC Support Forum

I felt it was time to make a post of completed installations so others could show off their hard work and give others incentive to keep plugging away at their retrofits. Here is my near mint condition series 1 Bridgeport CNC fully retrofitted to a cnc11 Ajax control. The machine has all the bells an...

Scott, I just wanted to thank you for all your help and patience on your end. The keyboard mapping and plc work great. First off the OCZ Vertex sshd works great on your servo PC. The control is unbelievable and nothing can touch it in the retrofit catagory. I even had this thing working on a dinosau...

I have the mpu 11 and dc310b with linux operating system. in the 3.0 mill manual says to change parameter 170 to be set at 1 . F3, f1 control set to keyboard, plc(normal), jog panel req(no) and home switch, all set as per instructions. upon power up mill finds home in all three axis. motors tuned kd...

Scott, the default value for Kd was 15 on all axis's I ended up going way down in value the x is 3 the y is 2.5 and the z is 2.25 all motors at idle level out and sound great. there is no noise at idle. now I can exert hand pressure on the table and z axis then load meters come up a touch and the mo...

Tried the direction reversal in the motor config. didnt work finally swapped the +and - motor leads it worked. I did autotune and x and z seem high on the idle current is there any way to adjust idle current to reflect in the load meters. are all load meters just suppose to be a short green line. th...

installed your dc3io, mpu11 kit along with your servo pc, bridgecap,(3) prewire, 3 encoders, 3 brand new MTS30m4-59 motors, Im having problems with the servo drive. first off the jog keys will not work, ( tries 3 keyboards ps2 and usb) cant go from inc to absolute, .001,.01, slow /fast jog,etc wont ...

thanks scott and cncsnw, for the info. probably end up going with the power -io solid state relays which will fit nicely on my din rail. Ill post the pics when when completed

purchased your servo pc tower (centroid based), the encoders and prewire, cap and bridge. getting ready to purchase the last leg of it which is the MPU11 and the DC3IOb. accoring to your boss schematic you use 2) M15sprly 5v relays to activate the 24vdc solenoids. I have the original front panel hoo...