Centroid Community CNC Support Forum

Last month, did you make marks on your motor shafts, pulleys, and ballscrews with the machine at its homed position?

After it lost position, without shutting down and restarting, did you try sending Y back to the home switch using "M91/Y"?

If so, what did the machine-coordinates DRO (Alt-D) say ...

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 ...

When your TTS tool holders are inserted into the spindle, what would be the consequences of having metal chips stuck to them?

Does your ATC design incorporate an air blow through the spindle during tool changes?

With tapered tool holders, chips on the tapers will tend to stay there as the tool ...

Probably. I would opt for one from a manufacturer who can spell, and who can draw a legible porting diagram; but then I am just an elitist snob about such things.
https://www.automationdirect.com/adc/sh ... s-5222-24d

No.

You have to edit in your own lead-in and lead-out, and then use Depth Repeat.

An Arc move is not a canned cycle. It is more like "Rapid" and "Line": the arc begins wherever the previous operation left off.

Therefore, as a general rule, you will need a Rapid, and probably a Line or two, to get the cutter to where the arc begins.

Both images show the carousel in the carousel-in position as if the "CarouselsOut" solenoid is not activated. Do you think this will work since I am not using the "CarouselsIn" output?

This is a good illustration of why "in" and "out" are not a good choice to describe the movement of a machine ...

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.

Interesting. I look forward to seeing what someone from Centroid has to say about it.

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....