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Will Acorn Six support servo motors or only step and direction stepper motors? many many closed loop AC servo motor drives accept step and direction input for position command. Yaskawa, Delta, LeadShine are just a few of the popular AC servos that work well with Acorn/AcornSix. This configuring is ...

Parameter 3 is also set by the Wizard in the tool touch off menu.

I have a knob question. Page one says to set "CNC12 parameter #4 = 6". CNC12 config/parameters #4 is file load options on my CNC12 v5.10. Is there some other parameter options I'm missing? jee whiz... fixing now.. yes Parameter 3 is the one we want to use. you can read more about paramete...

WMPG LOST RF causes and solutions 1.) USB Antenna too close! move the antenna further than 3-4 feet away from the WMPG pendant! 2.) USB Antenna is plugged into some other usb port other than one plugged directly into the mother board. (do not use USB hubs!) 3.) Windows usb port assignment problems. ...

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************************** September 18 Update. CNC12 v5.19 Beta Rev 8 Mill, Lathe, Router, Plasma is now available for public testing! here is the download link. https://centroid-support.filemail.com/d/ksnpxbvtukoogel Big thanks to Scott and Craig for all the recent testing feedback helping us put...

ok progress.
prerequisites for screw comp is everything else must be perfect first!

ok i fixed the typos and added a page about the Wizard TT menu where you can select which method you want to use as well.
refresh your browser cache to see the latest PDF with todays date.

https://www.centroidcnc.com/centroid_di ... rement.pdf

i found an old post from 2017 with some explanation and copied the text here it is Centroid screw comp is taking care of two things, #1 is pitch errors of the screw in BOTH directions! as the pitch on each side of the screw can be and most likely is different (going one way the nut presses on one si...

you got to get steps per rev, overall turns ratio correct before doing any ballscrew mapping. mapping is the last thing you do. .62625 is not the overall turns ratio of this machine. some simple math show that you have the Clearpath MSP software set to 800 and by the report.zip i see you have CNC12 ...