Centroid Community CNC Support Forum

thanks for posting, great video. got to get you on a Centroid Probe. Adam has also done one of the best videos i've seen on how to use probing to pick up "hard" locations on a part and reverse engineer it in the CAD/CAM system using the location data he got from putting the part in the CNC...

you'll find once you get the machine configured and running you never look at the heartbeat again.

Right on!

Right now we have not tested a C2000 yet on the Ethercat daisy chain, but will be testing a Delta M300 via as soon as they ship it to us.

Al009 just means the position error exceeds what is set (i believe it is normally 60k pulses; look in the manual; it is some a parameter). This generally happens if the drive is not tuned and/or it is put under recessive stress where it does not have enough power to overcome that. You can monitor i...

sorry i can't give this kind of advice, it is up to you to determine the proper amp ratings of wire, contactors, disconnects, relays etc.. usually the VFD manual will tell you what and how to size wire fuses/breakers etc and there are plenty of VFD videos on line. the safety aspect of the project is...

sounds like the driver is faulting out and releasing power, check for binding/load on motor when holding position and or force that would cause it to be pushed off the commanded hold position. does the drive have a LED that indicates a fault?

running in one direction is usually a wiring error

probably trying to command a G1 with an encoder installed
read up on G98 and G99 in the operator manual

but who knows i left my crystal ball at home.

i moved this post out of the acorn forum into this forum