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"Frankly, everytime a user buys a $7K wireless probe from Renishaw they are on the phone/email support with us for weeks trying to get the thing to work and/or learn how to use it. we don't make a dime on these deals and need a few bucks to be able to support our customers that choose to use ...

Oak is an 8 axis full closed loop AC Servo system with servo tunning in the CNC.

Acorn is only 4 axis open loop.

Maybe for this reason the software is also cheaper ;)

Uwe


sorry that is a poor answer. oak is a 4 axis controller out the box just like acorn, unlike acorn it has closed loop and ...

Thanks for replying Keith.

can you clarify more on the probe licensing now wireless probing has been officially added to ultimate? i have oak with a pro license and my wireless probe and wireless TT work 100% fine. if i upgrade to 5.30 is it going to stop working and force me to buy ultimate? are ...

question regarding wireless probing can you call out exactly whats changing. i have an oak and acorn. the oak has a pro/atc license with a renishaw wireless probe and wireless tool touch off. its worked fine with a customized plc for some time. Are you saying if i upgrade to 5.3/4 its going to stop ...

Made a bit more progress only getting the odd hour here and there to work on it at the moment. The power distribution wiring is taking shape, got a lot of stuff final mounted and started labeling the wiring, still scratching my head on where i want the ground strip.

Here is the current state of the ...

thanks some really good info there guys. i have boxes of ferrules. i still have to label all the wires so i will have to do the ferrules when i do that.

here is a snap of my acorn cabinet i built a few years back for the other mill, its been running like a champ, also..... note extensive use of ...

Where you have 12ga wires paired with 6ga wires at the top of the 40A breaker, be sure to give each 12ga wire a firm tug after you are done tightening the terminal screw, to be sure it is secure.

With a pair of wires of greatly differing size, it is hard to get the smaller wire adequately ...

thanks that's good advice on the power supplies under the oak i think they are sticking out just about enough, i did manage to get a screw driver in there and wire them up so hopefully its fine.

i know what you mean regarding the 12ga pairing up to the 6ga, as i cable tied it one started to pull ...

so i have made a little more progress. this weekend i managed to gut out the rest of the unnecessary rats nest of wires. i also started marking up all the wire numbers on the wiring schematics.

im still waiting on the standoffs for the plcadd1616 board they seem to be held up somewhere due to bad ...

Yeah I was thinking that, the mpg connection looks like it's pin for pin, the console connection must have some kind of communication protocol as there isn't enough pins compared to no of buttons :D :D

I will stick with the touch screen and see how I get on for now, it's been perfectly fine on the ...