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Acorn Wizard shows various setup features for "laser'. Need more infor on connecting to a laser. Customer wants to cut stainless up to 6mm. Looking @ IPG or Raycus laser systems, $60K and up just for laser. Their systems can be controlled by their software running on Win10 to set laser beam pow...

Retro a Sharp NC OD grinder. Used Yaskawa Sigma 5 setup for pulse and direction. Wrote custom macro programs for course & fine infeed with reciprocation; and plunge/dwell grinding. Machine works to less than +/- 0.0001 finish on parts. First production run of 33 pieces all dead on the money, per...

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How to do lettering?? using text fonts in 'Inkscape' not work. nothing shows, hangs loading on startup.

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Working on an Acorn retrofit to a Sharp NC 618 OD grinder. Pulled off the OEM Mitusibishi HMI, controller, drive and motor. Tied Acorn I/O into the existing terminal blocks to connect to the machine's electronics. Using a Yaskawa Sigma V drive and motor. Writing macros & programs to function as ...

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How to enable wireless MPG. Ordered it at same time as Acorn Controller, and Addon 1616 board. assumed it work would work out of the box, just plug it in. Not so. is an unlock or license key required.

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Retro a Sharp 6-18 NC OD grinder with Acorn Control. OEM NControl irratic, failing. Sharp no longer supporting; they said buy a new machine $80K, not happening. Kept most electronical as can see in picts, replaced controller with Acorn, and Mitsubishi drive and motor to Yaskawa Sigma V. Used most of...

Problem may be resolved. Reset Yaskawa spindle drive to factory defaults. Reloaded parameters which included the oem's 'User Defined V/F Profile'. Spindle appears to run smoothly @ speed. Only tested up to 10k rpm both M3 & M4. Correction: said 3-wire operation, it is actually 2 wire operation. ...

Retrofitting the latest and greatest Oak Controller with CNC12 onto a hi performance desktop VMC. It has a Swiss TMD 30k rpm spindle and Yaskawa spindle drive configured to run at 20k rpm, original configuration. No spindle encoder. 3-wire operation run forward & reverse with analog command. Sig...

Understood. FYI I am an experienced computer and PLC programmer. I have read thru the mpu.src code many times. I understand the syntax, and can distinguish between variables and functions. But any guidance you can provide is appreciated. In modifying the code, I make one change at a time and keep a ...

Is it possible to program the mpu.plc to call a external custom macro: M68 thru M79. there are no definitions for calls to M68-M79 in the mpu.src file.