Centroid Community CNC Support Forum

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I see the Acorn documentation recommends a 1000 to 10,000 line count encoder for spindle feedback. What would you recommend for a spindle encoder on a knee mill with a max. spindle speed of 5000 rpm? The mill has a Universal Engineering Kwik Switch spindle (no drawbar) so I plan on mounting the enco...

I have an Acorn controller on my 3-axis knee mill. Up until know, I was using it with the stock variable speed spindle off 3 phase. I installed a Hitachi WJ200 VFD and would like to set it up with the Acorn. I used the Wizard to add spindle FORWARD to Output 7 and REVERSE to Output 8, but neither ch...

I see CNC12 for Acorn is about to go to version 4.5.

Does this mean CNC12 will be released soon for OAK & Allin1DC?

Any guesstimate of when CNC12 will be available for OAK with the new software levels (Free, Pro & Ultimate)?

Are there any updates on the time-frame when the new Oak / Allin1 software pricing will be in effect?

Also, there was some talk of a Red Oak board or something between the Acorn and Oak...is this coming out anytime soon?

Stupid question: will DMM servos with updated firmware work on either an OAK or ACORN system?