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Post a link to the manual on those drives. You should use shielded cable on the step/dir signals not loose wire and as previously mentioned, all components should have been mounted to sheetmetal. (I like to use thick aluminum sheet if the cabinet did not come with a back panel) Not saying these are ...

First, make absolutely sure you have the drives setup correctly. (Provide a manual?) If the encoders are setup for 2500 and so is the drive, try and enter 10000 in the steps/motor rev in the wizard. If your ballscrews are 5.08 then leave that value. Lastly, you have PC/MPU resends. Go into F7 Utilit...

where in the machine travel are the switches mounted? in the middle? on the ends of travel etc.. identify the locations. This has been solved for me. Marty gave me some insight; I had all three inputs setup to HOMELIMITOK, but they needed to be HOMEOK only. I used the soft limits as table limits, a...

yea the Primeweld machine are HF arc start there not realy good for cnc controllers not built for interfierance . The hf start cause problems i understand hypertherm high cost . but thers more to it then jus the cutter . the book settings for every cut no other plasma cutter made has them so some t...

Have you been using the plasma yet . does the build do the nessary hypertherm cut speeds . like 300 ipm 16 ga 45 amp Question the THC voltage setting . Does the system do auto voltage so it sample voltage use that setting once the cut starts usaly right after IHS then cut height then thc delay . My...

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Happy to try and answer any questions.
I will try and replace the mechanical switch with a Proximity sensor.

Marty

Some time ago, I acquired a Phoenix 2'x2' CNC Router made by Magnum Technologies. It has 5tpi ballscrews on X/Y/Z direct driven by DMM Technologies 400W NEMA 23 AC Servos at 1:1 Pictures of that build can be found here: https://photos.app.goo.gl/IclCSgNKEhVWLYaq2 The goal was to easily remove the 80...

Yes try another PC. A shielded Ethernet cable has a metal jacket around the RJ-45 connector. I assume you bench tested with the Centroid supplied Ethernet cable? Did you check your error logs? You can unplug everything from Acorn except it's power supply only connected to it and the Ethernet cable a...

Look in the upper left corner. You ar looking at G54 part position, not MACHINE position. Toggle Alt d to see machine position. The control remembers the last part position set. You're fine. Time to start reading the CNC12 Mill Operators manual
Marty