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Ok, today I got around to connecting acorn to the milling machine, and ran into some issues which I don’t know how to fix. I am using leadshine type motors and stepper drivers in open loop. For some reason I only have movement on one motor. I have green led,s on all stepper drivers. I have checked t...

Hi, today I tried to get the following to work, but nothing moved. The acorn board is connected to my pc per instructions and I have the blue heartbeat showing on the board. So that’s ok. I am using the DB25 board, not sure if I should or not. The stepper driver is a stepper on line CL57T closed loo...

Hi chaps, i have now sorted the program opening in two screens. To answer the second part of my problem. I am using the following stepper driver and motor. The driver is a closed loop stepperonline CL57T (this is more then likely a copy, the UK is full of copies no matter who you purchase from) the ...

Thanks for your reply. I would like to use the VCR, but displayed alongside the CNC12 mill. I am unsure how this as become split, and have no idea how to get it back on the same display. I have now added a 24v to the e-stop and that is now working ok. Is there anything else that I need to do to make...

Hi, please find pictures which I think will answer your questions. You will notice that for some reason the centroid program as split into two parts. I followed the wiring diagram for leadshine drivers. I am far from an expert on electronic systems. But did have the machine running under mach3 with ...

Hi. Today was the first time that I powered up the acorn board with wired stepper drivers. I have been using the same pc all along. However today for some reason when I went start the centroid mill program, it had split into two parts. Centroid mill, and centroid control. I cannot get both sections ...

Hi all. Today was the first time I powered up the a corn board with the stepper drivers etc. I don't know if it was the light being low or not, but all the red LEDs came on, once power was connected. I am using the extension board DB25. 5v power to the acorn board and the stepper drivers is from the...

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Please find pics from manual showing inputs.