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Acorn spindle is 0-10V Acorn 6 -10/+10V or -5 / +5V

So with Acorn you need one Output to change direction, with Acorn 6 not.

But in both cases, you need a servo with speed mode and analogue input. There are lots of on the market with these features.

Uwe

Beautiful work as usual, Uwe. Soldering all the resistors is the price to pay for the versatility of those open collector outputs. I do agree on how nice it is to work with cartridge style soldering irons. I recently got one for home and it is really nice how quickly it reaches temperature. That wa...

In this case it looks like Acorn6 is handling the encoder input if a scale is setup for an axis differently opposed to a rotary encoder for the spindle.

It would be nice if someone from Centroid could check this out.

Uwe

Nice workaround, but the problem that #25102 is always -1 is not solved.

On my lathe #25108 is working fine with the Index from the spindle encoder.

Since you also have a working encoder now, can you test if #25108 is set to a value other than -1 after one turn of the spindle?

Uwe

If this stops communication errors, digitizing will run smoothly,

Uwe

I am ready with connecting the Hardware, will test the functions if the USB extension arrives next week.

Was quite a bit soldering to add a resistor to the LEDs.

By the way TS101 soldering Pen with a 100W Powerbank is perfect for soldering CNC stuff.

Uwe

I am using JMC AC Servos for axis and spindle, they work very well.

Uwe

This will print the generated g-code, not the Intercon file.

Uwe

Seems like it will work with Acorn6

Uwe

Do you have manuals for the servo drivers?

For Acorn6 they must accept step and dir commands.

Uwe