Centroid Community CNC Support Forum

I set out this past winter itching for a project to tackle, and I wanted to build a CNC router that was at least 48x96”. I had a budget of $15K and wanted to see just how much of a machine I could put together with this. Now that I have nearly finished this build, I must say that I a quite pleased ...

I found the perfect CNCPC for use with centroid and it was so cheap that I had little faith that it would be up to the task....but it passes all the PC Tuner tests and works flawlessly with my Acorn board with plenty of horsepower to spare. This $159.00 PC has TWO physlical ethernet ports, Intel ...

My batteries are new. The high CPU usage happens both when the pendant is powered on and when powered off, so it doesn't have anything to do with the communication between the pendant and receiver. I can try removing the antenna, and seeing if the high cpu usage persists (to rule out weather 433MHz ...

If I had to take a wild guess what is going on, my PC only has USB 3.2 ports. Having a bit of experience with PC stuff, I have seen some other devices that were designed with USB 2.0 chips have strange issues when connected to a usb 3.x port. Is anyone else running the wireless pendant connected to ...

I have a WMPG-6 running on Acorn with Windows 11 and I am getting super-high CPU usage on MPGClient.exe whenever CNC12 is running (55-70% on just MPGClient.exe). System often peaks out at 100% and mouse gets jumpy. If I disable and disconnect the wireless pendant, CNC12 runs with TOTAL CPU ...

What an interesting story, and a great looking machine!
Do you have plans to regularly use it for anything specific?

Thanks! Yes, I plan on using it for many things including cutting EVA foam flooring for boats, cutting Sunbrella outdoor fabric for marine canvases, various hobby woodworking ...

M3 is never to be found in G-code for laser work via PWM (at least my G-code never uses it). As I use my lasers (Opt) I just enable the laser with M37 and control PWM output via S-levels (S000 to S999). M38 turns the laser off.
Yes, Output 2 is assigned PWM Output and the PWM output comes via the ...

Anyone?

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I have CNC12 pro routher edition with Acorn board, and my machine has both a VFD (0-10v) router spindle and a deployable PWM diode laser. Spindle works fine, but when I try to Activate the laser with the M37 macro, it hangs up at the end when the "spindle is turned on and speed set to 0" with the M3 ...