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That's very interesting. Which DMM drives (DYN2 or DYN4) and which servo motors? Also, since the DB25 connector doesn't control the servos' Enable signal, how are you handling the Enable signal? My drives are the DYN4 ones and the motors are DMM ,DHT 86M (0.75Kw) for X,Y & Z and I have a DST 64...

Hi everyone, I have just in the last week began using and actually cutting metal on my new Acorn system. First part after being zeroed in was perfect size wise and I thought WOW all is good in the world but when I cut my 2nd,3rd and 4th part they were not the same as in they appeared to be getting p...

Hi everyone I am looking for information regarding setting up my DYN4 DMM drives to accurately home my machine after it hits the limit switches. Any help greatly appreciated, thanks

Thanks for that Keith. I have just watched you as a young man on the video. (@-@) Very useful

OK thanks for the reply Tom

Hi everyone, I posted on the facebook "unofficial" group about this issue which I hopefully now have sorted out thanks to the help of a few people. I have attached a report done at the time of the problem. Firstly my machine is a bridgeport copy Prototrak 2000 which was fitted with an MX3 ...

Thanks Tom, I have the digitising package so will check out the intercon.

Thanks Keith. When I bought my system I was going to get the intercon but as I had Alphacam which I used very successfully on my old Prototrak system for many years you said I didn't need the intercon. I will take a look at the example programs on CNC12 but my question still stands for anyone out th...

Is there anyone who can send me a simple CAM generated program to see what seems different in one t hat I currently generate in Alphacam? Basically all I need as an example is say a bolt hole circle of 5mm dia holes drilled 10mm deep on a PCD of 60mm. The block is a square of 100mm and its 50mm deep...

one more question is how do I go about "parking" the machine central to balance the weight for when I am not using the machine? I see a PARK button on the VCP