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Are you referring to the hard/soft jumpers on the C86ACCP. My understanding and I could very well be wrong, is those are for homing against a hard stop or a software limit.

Really? No one has any opinion.

You may need to get into the drives so keep it all in tact as well as the DB9 serial converter. You may use a good USB to Serial cable.
Download the Flashcut DCN Utility and the manual.

Marty, Is there any issue with connecting and looking into the drives settings as they are now?
I do have the ...

Just a gratuitous shot of the DB25 breakout board.

So now I am on to the signals for the drive.
The way the drivers were connected in FlashCut used Step, Direction, Enable, Com, Fault Emitter & Fault Collector.
The drives signals are 5v.
I used the DB25 connector and a breakout board to use Step and Direction pins at 5v.
Step and Direction is pretty ...

I did end up removing the existing relays in the cabinet.
Used R5 & R6 on the main relay board.
I followed one of Franco’s videos and it works well via VCP or MDI forward and reverse.
It wasnt in the order of set up but I was waiting on parts from Mouser.
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I dont see any support for 3rd party products or implementation of them on the Centroid forum.

Those worked out very well.
Originally I was going to put a din rail and terminals to extend the cables.
This turned out much cleaner and the cables will go direct to the Acorn. Much less potential for noise and errors. 2F45A0D5-3B77-4572-B188-7E94283F46A0.jpeg 28A994D8-2417-434E-A168-D98B995C702E ...

I appreciate the advice. Working hot had bitten me more than once.
I seemed to have gotten lucky in this instance, or so I hope