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I have an older DP 4 and the wire colors don't match up with the schematics. I had it working until my board fried and was RMA'd, but I neglected to take notes. What is missing here seems to be the WHITE wire. Any help would be appreciated...

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You stepped on the USB receiver, the antennae is easy to replace ;) Uwe Not quite.. It was stuck on the side of my cabinet and got hit somehow. I stepped on the antennae and then proceeded to discard it all before checking with Centroid. My fault... that being said, the fact that both I AND Centroi...

If you don't work in tenths, and work with wood and plastic, the you don't need scales at all. The point being is the Acorn is a micrometer, and you want to add a tape measure adjust it's position to machine material that grows by fractions of inches when the humidity changes. Except that it would ...

If the Acorn is already controlling movement with 0.1 micron precision, why would you want to add 4.9 microns of error? Because I don't work in tenths and 5 micron's are less expensive and easier to source? I can get tape and 5 micron readers for my 40x60 Router/Mill for about 320 dollars. The best...

Just make sure NOT to damage the antennae. I broke mine and have been waiting since Feb. for a replacement. It was my fault, but I want everyone to know that they are coded individually and it isn't possible to simply buy a generic antennae.

Yes, you can use different resolution scales but you probably don't want resolutions higher than 1 micron. It's just like any other encoder; you tell CNC12 the scale counts per inch (or mm). There is also no requirement that you have to have scales on all axis or even the same scale resolution on a...

With the encoder inputs, will AcornSix allow closed loop on servos like the DMM DYN4? Scales for positioning is supported. There is a planned encoder expansion board that gives another six encoder ports. Scales for positioning does not care what kind of motors it's connected to. Scales for position...

In the report.txt file you posted, the Z axis part zero location was set at 1.2553" *above* machine zero. The G28 return point (used with M25 and M6) had the Z axis going to machine zero. So, with those settings, any attempt to move the Z axis to machine zero was going to move to 1.2553" ...