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Marty, The design is not for any particular machine. I'm testing parts and pieces to see where they might work best. Years ago, I had a 5' X 10' Shopbot PRT-Alpha. Ten years ago or so, I had to sell that machine because of illness. Now I have sufficient health to get back into the game. Although I'v...

Thanks Gary and Dave. As soon as I get the servos, I'll run some tests using relays. I've got some relays with 24vdc 10mA coils that might work. Generally I prefer using solid-state components around micro-processors, but if you guys have made relays work reliably, then I'll try the same thing. Gary...

Gary, The ClearPath motors were on the test bench when I had the faulting problem and the two motors were different, a 2311S and a 3411P, so response times could easily have been different, especially with the jog set to 500 inches per minute. Having dissimilar motors was the base reason that I retu...

This may be off-topic for this forum, but I've ordered a DMM DYN4-H01A2-00 driver and a 86N-DHT-A6MD1 servo to use with my ACRON board. I received some input power wiring diagrams from DMM showing the proper add-on componests to use to connect the drive to 3-phase and 1-phase 240VAC, but nothing for...

Gary, Thanks for the quick reply. The step and direction signals worked properly with the (+) end tied to +24VDC and the (-) end connected to the corresponding step or direction H2/H3 connector. The Enable signals worked properly when connected in parallel through the E-Stop switch per the schmatic....

Dave, Thanks for the info on the alarm circuit. The Centroid schematic for multiple ClearPath motors shows that the HLFB circuit is daisy-chained with the 1st motor's RED conductor tied to GND, it's GREEN conductor tied to the 2nd motor's RED conductor - with the same daisy-chain for additional moto...