Centroid Community CNC Support Forum

Thanks to everyone's suggestions. I went into the acorn software and ran a simple program cutting a circle frame 6" diameter in air. Was able to run the drives up to 120IPM and they were smooth and perfect, I didn't even try any higher. This told me that there was nothing wrong with communicati...

Thanks Tom, the axis faults were me playing with the tuning to see if that was what was causing the fault. Adjusting the gain. Couple spindle faults are from re-starting the machine. If the drives fault out there is no reset for them other than power off and on (kind of a pain). If I power the machi...

I have recently upgraded a Bridgeport EZ Trak to the Acorn CNC. I kept the 2 existing dc servo drives and bought 2 drivers for them. I made and added a dc stepper for the z axis driving the quill. All encoders are 1000ppr nominal. Software and system are great. I am however in the process of fine tu...