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Thanks.. Do I need to put the resistors on the acorn board?

Sorry for the delay but I'm finally get back to upgrading Novakon 200 from mach3 to acorn.

Here is a photo of the CD-100 computer module with 4 gecko G203V stepper drives and breakout Board C11G attached to removable metal mount.
https://davidmunson.com/images/acorn/case.jpg

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Thank you

How do I set up software with mill and lathe (2 acorn boards) running with one laptop?

I don't want to screw up my settings on my lathe.

Sorry I missed this yesterday. My business has been really busy and between quotes and orders, I'm slammed.

No power bar, I have a Device that holds a butterfly ratchet for changing tooling.

How big of power supply do you have? the one in my cabinet is real heavy and supposedly big enough to ...

Yes mine is the original Novakon m200 that they built to decide how to build the rest. I will photograph the machine and steps that I think i need to do and let comments to guide me away from potential problems.

My plan is to create a new control box that will allow me to plug in all the original ...

Looking for some help upgrading my older Mach3 Novakon M200 w/steppers to Acorn. I know that my existing computer setup will not work.

I also have an existing Acorn board on my mini lathe with Geckos that runs fine with my laptop. So I am somewhat familiar with wiring it up.

I need to keep my ...

I have a mini lathe and have all the tools set up. The problem in that when I run the intercon program, I realized that the tool post is not accurate to relocate the tool properly.
Is there a way to add G code to move the post to a 0 0 position so when I put the tool on I can see it is in the right ...

why can't you measure the x and z position on each tool?