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Hello everyone,
I was recently gifted a haas vf1 from I friend I bought some machines from. It has a few boards missing so it’ll need a retrofit. I’ve done an acorn lathe retrofit so this is not my first retrofit.

It’s a 91 haas, and I’m still playing around with which board I want to use, all in ...

Hello everyone,
I'm about 94% done with my retrofit and I wanted to make some Schematics specific to this machine to have in the control box. I was looking for one but didnt see anything. Id just want to have a picture of the Acorn and have blank I could fill in as to what is actually connected to ...

Ive got two of these clearpath servos for sale SDSK 3411P-RLN. Both motors never mounted to machine and only used for a benchtest. Bought originally for one machine but I got for nothing a much better machine to retrofit. This new machine uses nema 23 and not these nema 34 so Id like to sell these ...

So I got it working,
Though I don’t understand why it’s working. Let me explain.

In order to get my second servo to move I had to plug it i to the Y axis and set that jumper to on. So my set up looks like this…

Z axis on centroid= plug servo into X slot on C86 board

X axis on centroid= plug ...

here is a report to look at

Hi there everyone,
So I’m using clearpath servos along with the C86 board for what should be plug and play with acorn on a 2 axis lathe. This is my second C86 and it’s got a weird issue. Everything on the centroid side seems fine and it shows no errors, however jogging the Z actually moves the X and ...