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Thanks to Muzzer, Marty and Mike Richards for your quick and detailed replies. The relay board pictured does have optoisolators and by removing the jumper I can use my 5v psu for the isolators only, and the 24 volts for the relays only , an even better solution. The board is activated by a negative ...

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I live in China and ordering anything from outside China is difficult especially the USA in the last year. I purchased my Acorn kit in November 2017 when there was no 8 relay module available, I know there is a kit now but I will not be ordering it for the above reasons. There are are many 8 ...

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I have another problem now! I am trying to setup my spindle (2.2Kw 400Hz) and Huanang VFD to run from the acorn board outputs. Used MIDI to input M03 S10,00, the VFD operator panel displayed just over 10,000rpm, acorn info screen displayed spindle +10,000rpm A. Midi again m05, spindle deacc ...

Thanks to swissi and Marty, I knew it was something simple, for some reason I had the logic in my head reversed, as soon as I saw your comments I realized the problem. Regarding my dropbox I thought I had loaded the report file and the other notes, I have never used dropbox before and still getting ...

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Cannot setup Homing switches!!

I have een using the latest version of Mach3 on my mill for a couple of years off and on and finally decided to use my Chinese USB motion card to control the 2.2Kw 24000rpm 400Hz spindle as well via my VFD, it worked well if I used manual switches but would ...