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I have been reading and watching videos and cant find this answer. I am retrofitting a machine this weekend and the machine setup is as follows. Gantry Y axis with two motors. There is only one home switch on the paired axis. The gantry is really rigid and do not need to square it, I cannot find how...

Why does the pacific Scientific drives not work well with Acorn? I have it running on linuxcnc but the customer don't like linuxcnc and I am retrofitting the AXYZ from linuxcnc to acorn the weekend but your comments concern me about the drives not working well with the acorn. What steps/rev you were...

Those drives do not have step /dir as input. They use velocity or torque mode. I saw no mention of step/dir. Acorn has +-10v analog speed control?

It does have alarm out, CW-CCW input and is 0-10volt.
I dont have the manual to the drive but like I said I have it working with linuxcnc but the board I am using takes the 10volts from the drive and gives the output depending on the speed requested in gcode. Can the Acorn board do that?

The last item before I pull the trigger is the spindle output. There is a TBwoods inverter connected with a 9KW spindle. It has a pot type input and a relay. I need to give it a dry contact for forward and 0-10volt. IT is a popt emulation type spindle out I need. I get com/10v reference from drive, ...

Thank you.

Hi, I have been looking and cannot find if the acorn centroid system and do a run from here, or run from line function. I have a customer that has a requirement to have a run from here when selecting a line in gcode. Is this possible with this system? If so can you give me an general idea where in t...

Thanks for the info. I haven't decided which controller to select but the OAK board with centroid software will be a choice for sure. I'm just trying ti figure out if everything will work as I expect, and my ATC will work the way I want. I dont see the overall picture of the Centroid yet, but I am w...

I did find the Macro and skinning programming manual.

I did the toolchange in python in linuxCNC. https://github.com/bobbevins/Linuxcnc_p ... n/remap.py

Here is the tool change I programmed with Linuxcnc.

https://youtu.be/ndokzQzy0xA