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You can build a system with the configuration you desire using the Acorn but you will have to
"sister" the step and direction signal for your X axis. A number of US OEMs do this. The only thing you may give up would be independent axis squaring, which depending on your machine drive ...

It working. Your battery test pointed me the VFD. It was a wrong setting in the VFD. So, I'm good for now. Thanks for your help.

Got it working, partially. Unwired the limit switches. But now it does not spin in reverse. Went back to the battery test and it does not work, though it did before.

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On it. Thanks for you help.

Yes. Watched your video... many of them. Thanks. It is in manual mode.

I have a Leeson motor for my lathe spindle, connected to a Teco L510 VFD, connected to Acorn, run by CNC12. Following Marty's CNC Garage video on this, my bench test works fine, as in the video. Using batteries as the source voltage to the AVI (analog voltage in) on the VFD to set the speed and ...

Thanks Marty. Just the nudge that I needed. Got the motors moving.

Hi Everyone,

I am new here. Setting up the Acorn for my lathe. I did not see a schematic on the Centroid web site that looks like my current setup. Presently, my G0602 is wired up with KL-5056 drivers and C7 breakout boards, which the Acorn replaces. Two 5v power supplies are connected to the two ...