Centroid Community CNC Support Forum

I put a new ajax controller on my Lathe. It uses centroid for the operating program. been using it for a few months without spindle encoder because the old one wasn't the right one. Finally got a new one and installed it. after changing all the right parameters. it would show the spindle RPM's but i...

I'm running them in current mode.

Hey Scott I got everything working in the line of communication, but the motors over compensate. they fly back and forth till I get a axis positional error. when i turn the motor by hand it wants to correct it and does to an extent. but when I turn a little too much it starts flying back and forth a...

And now its telling me that my demo version has expired. even tho 10 minutes ago i had 9 days left.

Thank goodness for tech support. A-M-C guy reminded me that inverting the inhibit inverts all the inhibits but the directional inhibits dont cause a fault. that was my problem with the drives. now to get the gpio4d to enable the drives???

Ok just tested the drives again. they wont move. must have done something to them that wrecked them or something.

oh I thought it was a separate setting for just the lathe screen. anyway now that I switched the dipswitches to currant mode, the board wont enable the axis. do I have to change the PID settings back to what they were, or set it up for torque mode?

Scott could you tell me how to adjust the resolution on the screen? It turned big on me again.

Scott where is that software that you wanted me to download, or do you want to do it when your hooked up? everything's ready now

I can hook the computer up to the net if theres any way you can connect to it and see whats up.