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Hi Got hold of an Golden Sun CNC-251R rotary table/axis the other day. (looks like Centroids own rotarys? My plan is to use it on my acorn converted mill. It has a pneumatic holding brake and i wonder if the servo drives can control the brake different than the "axis release brake" inside ...

could this do the trick?

https://www.audiohms.com/en/cnc-electro ... -dcs-100-a

thx for the tips. The machine is a Deckel FP41Nc,Acorn converison. Fixed table. I do not have an accurate homing of Z. It does have a axis brake to prevent the Z axis falling down when no power is applied/"not enabled" on drives So over time the Z axis drops down a few hundreds/mm everytim...

Hi I manged to bend the probe tip during some probing today. When i set up my tool library , i used the probe as reference tool. But i have changed the probe tip to a longer one after the original got bent. Is there a quick way to adjust the reference tool, so the other tools follow this height? Or ...

OK. the plan was to use the xbox controller software, i have not tested it yet , but with a xbox controller, do you have to select axis before jogging ? i thought it had dedicated buttons for X+ , X- etc? regarding the PC i have run several test runs , and it stays at the mentioned CPU percentage, i...

I have now got he Acorn up and running. :) Went for some chinese Just Motion Control JASD drives and matching JASM motors with abosolute 17bit encoders that i got a good offer on. Y motor 2kw, 2000rpm, 9.55 N.m 23.88 N.m, X motor 1.5kw, 3000rpm, 4.78N.m 14.43N.m Motors run good in test mode, running...

well i have decided to go with an Acorn, as i'm very pleased the mill conversion i did with acorn
and try out the xBox controller also.

both my probes are permanently wired (I have a wifi Renishaw RMP-60 with the RMI-Q receiver for TP and a mainstream chinese toolsetter) , so i have not connected the probe detect signals , as you mentioned , the probing and tool setting works fine without it. I have a wifi Renishaw RMP-60 with the R...

Finally i also got the time to update to 4.5. Went smooth upgrading from the previous version :) I really like the new look and added functions . Thumbs up! Also added a couple of functions to show Probe tripped , and Tool Touch with indicators on the VCP. However after entering parts setup-->probi...