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What gauge do your motors recommend for wire size? Not for the motor wires either! ;) Just between the Acorn board and the Stepper Controller, the 5vdc part, not the 74vdc motor side. (I've been doing this for years, I was just curious about SOLID vs STRANDED wires) Is there an advantage of using o...

I'm not using steppers but I would suspect that you would still want a shielded cable to help keep noise to a minimum. What gauge do your motors recommend for wire size?

I can't tell you definitively what to use but I can tell you that I wouldn't use Cat anything for this. Cat 5 is 100mb, 5e/6 is 1000mb, 6a/7 is 10000mb. But that is designed for Ethernet communications and not signals like encoders. It specifically uses twisted pairs with different twist rates to pr...

Centroid has a wireless pendant for CNC12. They are working on bringing Oak and All in One DC up to CNC12 now. Marty I like the MPG they offer for the Acorn. The X,Y,Z display seems like it would be useful. How's the responsiveness with the USB? Is there any delay between changes on the MPG and the...

tblough, thanks for the info on the connector. Actually Digikey has been out of stock for a while now. In fact I searched high and low and only found 2 connectors in the US in stock at a company and bought them both. I am wiring up a wireless MPG (doesn't sound right) since they don't yet have a USB...

Ok so the answer to number 1 is the first picture from your wiring diagram is correct. The second picture from the same Centroid Oak install manual is wrong. Just to be clear it is also wrong in the Allin1DC install manual as well. Regardless of what MPG is being used, the pin out on the Centroid bo...

In an effort to try to answer my own questions and keep this build moving forward I assumed that you would use the same MPG on the Allin1dc controller as well. I downloaded the installation manual and searched out the diagrams. Evidently they were copy and paste since they have the same exact discre...

Am I buying the wrong board? I see tons of activity in the Acorn forum, moderators answering, centroid techs answering and others answering all sorts of stuff. I thought these would be pretty simple questions considering it is ALL from your installation instructions and your wiring diagrams. Did I p...

If your laptop has both an Ethernet port and wifi it can run the machine and have internet via the wifi.

I am working on a knee mill Oak CNC retrofit. In the process of wiring the cabinet I came across a discrepancy in the install manual with the wiring diagrams. I am looking for definitive clarification. I attached a photo of the issue. The first and second images in the picture both show the MPG conn...