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Good catch on the 0-5 volts, some of the others I was looking at with the daughter board were 0-10. I find this little guy: https://amzn.to/4aV2M1t I might just give this a shot given it's pretty inexpensive. I bet I could get reverse working with a couple of relays. I'm now wondering if it would be...

Supposedly it's a 1/2 HP motor. So I'm wondering if this: https://www.automationdirect.com/adc/shopping/catalog/drives_-a-_soft_starters/dc_drives/high_voltage_(%3E_50v)_dc_drives/gsd4-240-5c Combined with this: https://www.automationdirect.com/adc/shopping/catalog/drives_-a-_soft_starters/dc_drives...

Hey all! I recently picked up an old Dyna Myte 2400 mill: IMG_6692.jpg It's mechanically all there but has been stripped of all of it's electronics. I have a drive system (and motors) already waiting to go on it so in terms of moving XYZ I've got that covered. What I'm curious about is the correct a...

I wondered about some of them being able to be written or not from a g code command. One in particular that seems like it should be able to be written over is 71. That one is the distance of a touch off plate to a spoilboard surface. That could be something that changes often which is why I am tryin...

I'm trying to use the G10 command to change some parameters in one of my custom scripts. I followed the examples in the manual and they work. The parameters I am trying to change are: 3,17,12 and 17. Every time I run a G10 P3 R0 command for example I get an "invalid P" error in the MDI win...

I am using the generic outputs right now, and it looks like this would work. Is there way that I can make my own custom output? And as far as how you can code in here.. Is this just like writing custom scripts? More specifically could I do something like: IF SV_STOP || IF #4120 EQ 99 THEN ELSE RST M...

I don't have an extra output unfortunately, they're all used up!

I've done a lot of customizing of Acorn, but one thing I've never really dabbled in is messing around with the PLC programming. Here's what I am trying to solve for: I have a secondary tool on my machine that is deployed by an air cylinder. Think of something like a self feeding air drill. When tool...

Ahh, that makes a lot of sense. I've been using the same variation of a homing routine for a few years now. For years I've been running my homing routine that way. As you instructed I removed the limits and sure enough it works... almost. My homing routine seeks the switches as you'd imagine. But on...

Hi all, I've got a couple of Centroid installs that I have done that have required me to disable limits in certain situations. One situation is during homing. I've run into situations where a machine was moved when powered off and I can do a homing routine because there are machine limits in place. ...