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2024 Centroid 5-axis CNC engine shop machining centers at the performance Racing industry trade show. Live demonstrations from December 12th to the 14th.
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8 years ago, we ran Acorn on a machining center with AC servos on each axis and put a ball bar on it and ran various high speed circle tests and compared it to the same machine running the same motors/drives with Oak in full closed loop mode. the results were impressive, Acorn hybrid closed loop (th...

with the Delta's (or any other AC servo) Acorn is running in Hybrid Closed Loop. the drive closes the loop!

the software should handle all of this by simply asking the user is this the way you want it or do you want me to flip it around for you. No table, no labels needed, hook it up and go.

rather than trying to figure out that board, just simply list info about the machine, it is a gantry machine? do you want auto squaring? does it have limit switches now? what are the make and model of the exiting axis drives? and spindle etc.. etc.. this is the info we need all easily answered by so...

what kind of machine? and what type of work will the machine be doing?
how much i/o do you need? etc.

most likely Acorn or AcornSix

Or is it still the case that if you define an input as CycleStart2, then -- because you sensibly installed a normally-open pushbutton -- specify that it is N.O. (red), the Wizard will invert the input, and Cycle Start will not work because the PLC thinks the button is continuously held down? key wo...

and yes the Wizard has been "fixed" in this regard. there are no NC NO designations on it.

hello! ah yes the old NO NC nugget. trying to get away from that as it means different things to different people. is a switch normal when some action is being made or when it is in its resting state? etc. Some of those people are just plain wrong, and need to be educated. yeah that was my exact st...

Keith, On the inputs in the wizard where you can flip the polarity, it might help to have the text there explain what red and green mean. Even having the red and green buttons say NO or NC along with the color. Nothing wrong with it, but I noticed it didn't spell it out for new users. hello! ah yes...