Centroid Community CNC Support Forum

Hi. I'm not an electrical engineer and I can relate to the challenges the "every man" has when trying to do spindle control on these DIY mills. When you boil it all down, you are replacing the manual potentiometer with a "digital" version. Manual potentiometers have three terminals (Ground, Output ...

Awesome!

Hi. Did the video help?

Awesome! I hope this helps people with their Acorn CNC conversion projects. The Stepperonline folks seem like decent people and the drives, motors and power supplies that I've purchased from them come across as a quality product.

Hi. It can be done. Here is a video that may give you a few ideas: https://youtu.be/fs44aTeAkhk

Here is another video that you may find interesting: https://youtu.be/xIQZ8dCUcwg

Long story short, the DC motor controller in the Asian mini lathes and mills does something strange with the ground. I ...

I had a problem with Wifi signal in my garage. Turns out you can buy signal boosters. Here is the one I purchased from Target for $29. It seems to work just fine and now I can run Team Viewer over the WiFi in my garage.

https://www.tp-link.com/us/products/details/cat-5508_TL-WA860RE.html

The ...

You guys are awesome! I think you may have found a bug that lives in all Fusion 360 turning posts. I've started a thread on the Fusion360 forum. I'm sure they will figure something out in short order.

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-360-computer-aided/turning-high-feedrate-mode-not-outputting ...

Hi. I'm not totally in the know with all of your hardware, but I can tell you that a $25 OMRON encoder works awesome with the Centroid acorn. Extremely accurate spindle feedback for tapping and threading.

https://youtu.be/CKylcAPv1Tc

Hi. Check this out:

https://youtu.be/zqgEijP4WTQ

Hey Guys - I'm getting closer to having that Mini-Lathe encoder mounting kit ready.

https://youtu.be/60GgctDS79E