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Not sure what kind of machine this is but it's simply not worth saving those drives and motors. They are just too old and no longer efficient or even supported by anyone. Drives and motors are so cheap these days and they have modern electronics and feature you'll never have on those old drives. You...

Thanks for the info. That tells me whoever built it didn't do their homework. I know many people whom I've retrofit machine for just hop on Amazon, find a drive/motor combo that looks nice and say to themselves "hmmm, that should work" and they end up with machines plagued with issues and ...

It tells you you over torqued the motor on one of your pics. I assume you got 4 yellow blinks on the motor when this happened? Did you consult with Teknic on your machine, gantry weights, z axis weights and other info before you selected the motor you have or did you just randomly pic a motor thinki...

There are several ways to set the Z reference and it depends on the machine, how you home it, how accurate it is or if you just use a reference tool. Keith did a video many. many years ago on this subject using the tool offset library and typical setup for a router. I dont know if it'll be helpful o...

Hi Ron, if you want better help please post a link to the manual for your drives. With out a manual we really can't answer your question. I personally have never heard of that driver so a manual would be super helpful. If the driver accepts step and direction signals it should be easy to hook up.

My bad, he asked about the function used on "the tool offset screen" not the VCP. That's a screen I don't even use, sorry.

If you select the "single block" mode and then run the macro again it'll show you in the first line the macro number it's running. Then just escape out or cycle cancel. Mine is custom so I don't know the macro number off the top of my head.

Yes, those will work with Acorn. It's a standard close loop stepper. Those will wire to the DB25 so you'll also need to order a DB25 breakout board from Amazon as well. Like this: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B073RG3GG6/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B073R...

That's exactly how I do it. Ground the cabinet at its ground lug with the incoming ground from my 4 conductor main power wire and then run a jumper over to a copper ground bus bar where I ground all my components to. I run a 4 conductor, 220v line in from my power panel so I an have 220 for the mach...

You can simply add a fixed tool touch off device, either mechanical or electronic, and CNC12 will automatically measure each tool for you and go back to cutting. You can manually set Z0 and face the material. After that you can reset Z0 with tool 1 in the spindle and start the job. When it comes tim...