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by cncsnw
Fri Sep 05, 2025 3:57 pm
Forum: Centroid Oak, Allin1DC, MPU11 and Legacy products
Topic: Centroid M400 5axis probing
Replies: 3
Views: 49

Re: Centroid M400 5axis probing

It depends on when the control was set up.

If it is a ca. 1996 M400 control running CNC7, then the control handles the probing.
If it is a ca. 2015 M400 control running CNC11, then I am pretty sure Mastercam posts the probing programs.

Find out the control serial number, then call Centroid's ...
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by cncsnw
Fri Sep 05, 2025 3:42 pm
Forum: Centroid Oak, Allin1DC, MPU11 and Legacy products
Topic: PC Drive Failure: What files do I need to recover?
Replies: 8
Views: 63

Re: PC Drive Failure: What files do I need to recover?

All you really need to do is restore a previous Report from the target machine. From the new Report you posted, that machine appears to be K101602, which would be one of the two Chevaliers.

Since all five machines are running the same CNC12 version (5.06), on the same control hardware (Allin1DC ...
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by cncsnw
Wed Sep 03, 2025 9:22 pm
Forum: Centroid Oak, Allin1DC, MPU11 and Legacy products
Topic: Are Dirve Inerface signals Sink or Source?
Replies: 2
Views: 441

Re: Are Drive Interface signals Sink or Source?

We have to be careful to define this, since different people have different ideas about what "sinking" and "sourcing" mean.

I use those terms to describe one side of a connection, and whether that one side provides a connection to positive (sources current) or a connection to negative (sinks ...
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by cncsnw
Mon Sep 08, 2025 12:42 pm
Forum: Centroid Oak, Allin1DC, MPU11 and Legacy products
Topic: CNC 10 axis motion backwards
Replies: 4
Views: 43

Re: CNC 10 axis motion backwards

F1/Setup -> F3/Config -> "137" -> F2/Machine -> F2/Motor.

Toggle "Dir Rev" (which stands for direction reversal) from Y to N, or from N to Y, by pressing the space bar.

As Uwe noted, since the machine was previously set up with the axis travels backward, you will also need to correct the plus ...
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by cncsnw
Mon Sep 08, 2025 12:31 pm
Forum: Centroid Oak, Allin1DC, MPU11 and Legacy products
Topic: M400/CNC7 to CNC12/Allin1DC
Replies: 10
Views: 2414

Re: M400/CNC7 to CNC12/Allin1DC

That is for the LCD monitor-controls button strip (which you see at the bottom of your picture).

Unless or until you need to adjust the picture, or turn the LCD monitor on or off, it does not need to be plugged in.
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by cncsnw
Mon Sep 08, 2025 12:24 pm
Forum: Centroid Acorn CNC Controller
Topic: Machine Stopping Mid Program! <flaky limits and bad coms>
Replies: 28
Views: 259

Re: Machine Stopping Mid Program!

So, assuming you are not actually tripping any of your limit switches with axis movement, you need to find out why Acorn sees the limit switch input tripped (open).

Most likely you have a loose connection somewhere in the limit switch / INP2 chain, so that machine vibration causes it to open ...
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by cncsnw
Fri Sep 05, 2025 9:38 pm
Forum: Centroid Acorn CNC Controller
Topic: Vfd Help
Replies: 4
Views: 59

Re: Vfd Help

If the machine has a Centroid control with typical PLC logic, then the "simple switch" method is most appropriate.
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by cncsnw
Fri Sep 05, 2025 3:51 pm
Forum: Centroid Oak, Allin1DC, MPU11 and Legacy products
Topic: All axis pause when jogging
Replies: 12
Views: 1604

Re: All axis pause when jogging

So I pulled up the vcp for the keyboard control And I use my keyboard to jog the axis and the pause/hesitation did not occur. So maybe it is just my monitor touch screen that is causing an issue.

That is very likely. If the pauses do not occur in CNC-programmed moves, and do not occur when ...
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by cncsnw
Wed Sep 03, 2025 11:38 pm
Forum: Centroid Acorn CNC Controller
Topic: ATC - M101 and M6 Modifications
Replies: 26
Views: 1154

Re: ATC - M101 and M6 Modifications

In the M6 macro, in the block below N600 (for carousel-type tool changers), you could replace "M101/70014" with a loop similar to what Uwe suggested:
N610
G4 P0.1
IF #50001
IF ABS[#25009] > 10 THEN GOTO 610

This will cause the CNC code to loop continuously, until the measured speed from the ...
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by cncsnw
Wed Sep 03, 2025 5:27 pm
Forum: Centroid Hickory EtherCAT CNC Controller
Topic: IO forcing operator lock out
Replies: 2
Views: 462

Re: IO forcing operator lock out

Assuming that you have wired the control so that it does not depend on any inversion or forcing for normal operation (e.g. you have used N.C. sensors where the PLC expects them), then you could edit the PLC program to either remove the inversion and forcing features from LoadParametersStage, or you ...
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