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by cncsnw
Mon Jul 07, 2025 3:59 pm
Forum: Centroid Acorn CNC Controller
Topic: BIOS setup on the Dell Touch Screen All-in-One-CNCPC
Replies: 3
Views: 989

Re: BIOS setup on the Dell Touch Screen All-in-One-CNCPC

As a followup: "159gates" was also used on Centroid Dell PC's from late 2019.
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by cncsnw
Wed Jul 09, 2025 11:33 pm
Forum: Centroid Hickory EtherCAT CNC Controller
Topic: PLC Update - New Features
Replies: 3
Views: 18

Re: PLC Update - New Features

To me once you get to that point it looks like completely separate code sections that are not needed if your machine doesn’t fit that orientation?
For a PLC program that only needs to run on one control and one machine, yes: there is no need to include the code for features you will not be using.
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by cncsnw
Wed Jul 09, 2025 10:32 pm
Forum: Centroid Hickory EtherCAT CNC Controller
Topic: PLC Update - New Features
Replies: 3
Views: 18

Re: PLC Update - New Features

I am obviously not an unbiased source, since I provided your original PLC program.

I maintain my own library of "stock" PLC programs (mill/lathe, oak/allin1dc/hickory/legacyadd, atc/non-atc, etc.) which I keep as internally consistent as possible. I gave up trying to make them similar to the ...
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by cncsnw
Wed Jul 09, 2025 10:15 pm
Forum: Centroid Hickory EtherCAT CNC Controller
Topic: Hickory not recording Stats correctly
Replies: 3
Views: 45

Re: Hickory not recording Stats correctly

Interesting. I look forward to seeing what someone from Centroid has to say about it.
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by cncsnw
Wed Jul 09, 2025 12:55 pm
Forum: Centroid Acorn CNC Controller
Topic: Understand existing Acorn Mill
Replies: 14
Views: 205

Re: Understand existing Acorn Mill

Those wires look like they do not connect to OUT6.

They look like they pass underneath the relay board.

Maybe those are your analog wires from Acorn H8 to your VFD.

One more reason why it is not good practice to route wires over or under circuit boards....
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by cncsnw
Tue Jul 08, 2025 2:26 pm
Forum: Centroid Hickory EtherCAT CNC Controller
Topic: Hickory not recording Stats correctly
Replies: 3
Views: 45

Re: Hickory not recording Stats correctly

Because Hickory does not allow the CNC12 software to be updated in place, the hour meters reset to zero every time you install a new CNC12 software version.

To maintain your hour meters, you have to manually copy the "mt.stats" file from your (renamed) previous installation directory, or from the ...
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by cncsnw
Mon Jul 07, 2025 2:44 pm
Forum: Centroid Acorn CNC Controller
Topic: Understand existing Acorn Mill
Replies: 14
Views: 205

Re: Understand existing Acorn Mill

The acorn_mill_plc.src program you posted does not have any "custom" changes in the lube section. You can just use the Wizard.

Some lube pumps with electronic timers will not work optimally with P179=0.

For example, one with a "lube-first" timer, which pumps lube whenever power is first applied ...
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by cncsnw
Sun Jul 06, 2025 5:00 pm
Forum: Centroid Acorn CNC Controller
Topic: Understand existing Acorn Mill
Replies: 14
Views: 205

Re: Understand existing Acorn Mill

Lube logic and Parameter 179 are standard to nearly every Centroid PLC program of the last 20 years.

If you install a fresh version; assign "LubeOut" to OUT1 as before; and set Parameter 179 to the same setting you had previously (or check the same boxes in the Wizard), then it will work just like ...
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by cncsnw
Sun Jul 06, 2025 2:10 pm
Forum: Centroid Acorn CNC Controller
Topic: Understand existing Acorn Mill
Replies: 14
Views: 205

Re: Understand existing Acorn Mill

First, the lubrication is kicked off when I press the cycle start. I can see it by pressing CTRL+I and viewing the output (in my case, output 1). Where can i find the piece of code that trigger the Lub when i cycle start?

I answered your question above, but I did not ask the obvious followup ...
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by cncsnw
Sun Jul 06, 2025 2:08 pm
Forum: Centroid Acorn CNC Controller
Topic: Understand existing Acorn Mill
Replies: 14
Views: 205

Re: Understand existing Acorn Mill

"OUTPUT5", "OUTPUT7" and "OUTPUT8" and similar names are generic output functions that Centroid provides, for when you want to control something that is not otherwise supported by the PLC program. They are controlled with the M61-M68 and M81-M88 M functions.

Since you do not have any wires ...
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