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I don't have to much to add except that I converted a similar 97 vintage machine and all of the scales worked fine with the Allin1DC after changing the connector.

The mill has been awesome after the conversion.

Tim

I will be watching this thread with great interest. I have exactly the same machine and want to upgrade it to Centroid in the future like I did to my Trak DPM mill.

In looking at the spindle brake, are there strong reasons to get the optional braking resistor for the Freq drive, rather than re-using the mechanical brake that this machine is currently fitted with?

We are using an automation direct GS30.

I was planning to just re-use the braking circuit ...

I got the input working last night and modified my M13 macro to wait for the finish signal.

That is now all working great and as before the M13 macro works in the MDI function.

What is weird, is that it now also works perfectly fine when I use it in an Intercon Program. I am not sure what I did ...

Hello,

I am trying to get my Tsudakoma RZ160 rotary indexer working with my Allin1DC Bed Mill.

I wired in the indexer input to output 6 (clamp) and the indexer output to input 16 of the Allin1DC.

I have the output working such that the indexer indexes to the next position. I am still ...

I maybe have a similar issue on my DPM, that once I realized what was happening I worked around it.

Basically, I have the quill and the head summed like you are talking about. If I power up the machine and home it with the quill not at the very top of its travel and then move the quill up and try ...

I don't have any experience, but you could always put a scale on that axis to get the required accuracy.

I will also add, that I have a bed mill where the quill is not motorized and the head moves up and down. This is a great setup for the home shop.

If you could motorize the knee and leave the ...

cnckeith wrote: ↑Thu Nov 30, 2023 5:34 pm wow! great video! thanks for posting! we got to get you a KP-3!

We do:)

From a technical standpoint, going forwards through the program with an MPG handwheel driving the feeds should be readily achievable. After all, we already have the ability -- on lathes, at least -- to slave axis feed to a spindle encoder. It should be a short step to slave axis feed to the ...

Thanks for the insight.

Even just having this functionality in the "forward" direction would be vary useful.