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by playerofpawns1
Sun Nov 27, 2022 11:41 pm
Forum: Centroid Acorn CNC Controller
Topic: acorn is suddenly freaking out and doing weird things where do I start? please help <resolved, loose plug>
Replies: 10
Views: 1048

Re: acorn is suddenly freaking out and doing weird things where do I start? please help

There were a lot of encoder errors in your error log so you may have found the problem. I would recommend a SSD over a HDD any day and if you can upgrade to 8GB ram that would be plenty. ok, I understand that there were a lot of encoder error codes, I need to make another coupler for the x axis so ...
by playerofpawns1
Sun Nov 27, 2022 9:41 pm
Forum: Centroid Acorn CNC Controller
Topic: acorn is suddenly freaking out and doing weird things where do I start? please help <resolved, loose plug>
Replies: 10
Views: 1048

Re: acorn is suddenly freaking out and doing weird things where do I start? please help

thank you so much guys for helping me, your advice on what to look for concerning my setup may save me from big problems if I go over everything and make important changes, I sure appreciated it. I just found a huge problem that I overlooked... well, to tell you the whole story; I live in an old hou...
by playerofpawns1
Sun Nov 27, 2022 8:48 pm
Forum: Centroid Acorn CNC Controller
Topic: acorn is suddenly freaking out and doing weird things where do I start? please help <resolved, loose plug>
Replies: 10
Views: 1048

Re: acorn is suddenly freaking out and doing weird things where do I start? please help

Ok, you state that before Coiling the extra Control wires you did Not have this Problem. Avoid wiring loops coming off of devices - as they are Great Antennas for Receiving noise or for transmitting noise! Run wires along a ground plane... http://linuxcnc.org/docs/2.7/html/integrator/wiring.html Be...
by playerofpawns1
Sun Nov 27, 2022 8:29 pm
Forum: Centroid Acorn CNC Controller
Topic: acorn is suddenly freaking out and doing weird things where do I start? please help <resolved, loose plug>
Replies: 10
Views: 1048

Re: acorn is suddenly freaking out and doing weird things where do I start? please help

Post a current report so we can look at your error log and other settings. Seeing that you have no shielded wires in your cabinet I'm guessing a noise issue to start. From the main screen in CNC12 press F7 - utilities then press F7 -create report. Save this ZIP file to your desktop or thumb drive a...
by playerofpawns1
Sun Nov 27, 2022 5:42 am
Forum: Centroid Acorn CNC Controller
Topic: acorn is suddenly freaking out and doing weird things where do I start? please help <resolved, loose plug>
Replies: 10
Views: 1048

acorn is suddenly freaking out and doing weird things where do I start? please help <resolved, loose plug>

I am having so many errors now with my centroid acorn mill setup, and before it had no errors. you were all talking about needing to have the AC servo driver for the spindle needing to always be powered on. I don't have the enable setup for my spindle servo, and sometimes I need to turn the spindle ...
by playerofpawns1
Thu Nov 10, 2022 2:54 pm
Forum: Centroid Acorn CNC Controller
Topic: Lathe threading please help
Replies: 49
Views: 3000

Re: Lathe threading please help

It's really weird, I had the machine done yesterday and I turned the 5 pass threads in wax and they turned out perfect, but today I tested threads and the index mark stayed on all the time again and I thought maybe I didn't re-test after mounting the motor, and it caused a ground problem so I took t...
by playerofpawns1
Wed Nov 09, 2022 8:03 pm
Forum: Centroid Acorn CNC Controller
Topic: Lathe threading please help
Replies: 49
Views: 3000

Re: Lathe threading please help

WOO HOO!!!!! WERE BLINKIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THANKS EVERYONE FOR ALL THE HELP TO FIGURE OUT THAT IT WAS THE INDEX MARK THAT WAS MISSING ONE WIRE INSIDE THE ENCLOSURE. WHOODA THUNK IT? AND IT ONLY TOOK 5 PAGES lol
by playerofpawns1
Wed Nov 09, 2022 6:30 pm
Forum: Centroid Acorn CNC Controller
Topic: Lathe threading please help
Replies: 49
Views: 3000

Re: Lathe threading please help

there is a wire on the mill that is not on the lathe had to go buy a flash light could not find mine. im glad I found a problem in here
by playerofpawns1
Wed Nov 09, 2022 5:35 pm
Forum: Centroid Acorn CNC Controller
Topic: Lathe threading please help
Replies: 49
Views: 3000

Re: Lathe threading please help

If you connect +5v to pin6 ( this is for +Z) then index is always on related reading: https://centroidcncforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=64&t=4 Check if the encoder output from Servo is wired to the correct pins on Acorns encoder input ok I will check the pins and see right now and look at the link w...