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Here is a report file.
I got the m6 to stay. Thanks for the help.
I still can not get it to save my changes to the x home, It will always revert back to home in place. I have changed back to the 5.0 and it homes fine but when I go back to 5.2.... x will not home.

Thanks for the reply.... I will get a report uploaded today after work. In the wizard I can change my homing to home to a switch and not home in place. But that will not stay, after saving and rebooting everything, X goes back to home in place the Y and the Z works fine, It has been up and running ...

I currently updated to the new acorn software’s version. I got most everything running but when i try to copy my m6 file to the directory it will work till i close and reopen cnc12 it is gone. Also in the wizard it will not let me change my homing on my x to not home in place… I save and restart ...

I have a belt 3 to 1 driving the ball screw... Is this making it have some trouble?

Not pointing at all... I love both the clearpath and centroid system. I have had this running for around 6 years. I just did a 2.5 D carving and it came to light when the z axis was running so slow. I also have a 4x8 plasma table running the same system.

Teknic log in and look and ran testing on my system... they got no errors in there software and told me it is coming from the way acorn is sending the information to the servos... they were not point finger, just not getting any error even after we move the max speed in the acorn system to 100, but ...

Here is the report.
Nema 34 6400 running at 75V
CPM-SDSK-3411S-ELN SERVOS

I have clearpath servo run a 3 to 1 belt drive on all axes including the z ball screw. I have talked to teknic about this and after some testing.. it show that it is a setting in acorn. In the wizard I have the max set to 75 and anything about that the z move and stops then moves and stop and so on ...

Has anybody setup a wireless dust collector switch that can be turn on and off from acorn. I would like to use a output from acorn to a transmitter that will turn it on and off. The wireless system is easy just can't get me head around how to send it from acorn. If anybody has done this can you ...

Other stuff that was cut on my router.
Tim