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This looks like a interesting add on for Centroids controller and it so happen that I have a place for one, when I converted my lathe I had to remove the 2 mpg's from the carriage of a Cyclematic CT-1118cnc but kept them hoping someday we could reuse them but Acorn 6 came along and the void was answ...

Been a long time ago you posted about a custom jog panel have you made away progress. My next version will be 32 function for my lathe more to follow.

Luke

Looks like a cool item Keith and I see the upcoming version 5.08 has some interesting features to play with.

Well it's been awhile but here it goes, this is project that started with seeing Rick Sparber and Franco talk about using a xbox controller with your Acorn and my thoughts were not really but as one watch you tube video's you tend to wonder around on other video's and there I found hacking a xbox co...

I've done the knee on mine which gave me 12" of travel and allow me to operate the quill manually, 1 kw ac servo DMM motor running through a 3:1 ratio cog timing belt, the only problem I see is the acme screw on the knee is noisy a bit but I don't run it fast and is good for what I do, if I was...

Well here goes nothing my first post of a completed acorn install on my second machine The journey started by looking for a lathe to do my conversion and behold I found such a machine a Cyclematic CT-1118CNC fully functioning just had to bypass a step down transformer and find the single phase leg i...

Well it comes a time that you do not have enough acorns so Keith we"ll need another acorn in a month or so going to be my third one this centroid stuff just works, wonder if we can put them on toasters coffee machine etc.

Luke

It is in rev 3 of the acorn drawings and the Yaskawa sigma 5 you have is it that is her.

Luke

They do work as this is what I'm setting up right now SGDM 04ADA wired to acorn sheet number S14896 drawing and from there you would need to do some settings on the drive it self for step/dir and a few other things, bench tested up to that point now all working I,m into finalizing the wiring.

This has been asked before but how far down the list is the wired version of CPW-4

Luke