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by robtown
Mon Jun 24, 2019 4:32 pm
Forum: Success Stories
Topic: Cutting 16 ft Stringers on a Shopbot 4896
Replies: 3
Views: 3041

Re: Cutting 16 ft Stringers on a Shopbot 4896

I used 3/8 dowel pins. You can see them there at the very beginning of the video.
by robtown
Thu Mar 14, 2019 11:51 am
Forum: Centroid Acorn CNC Controller
Topic: Vibrateing & looseing steps
Replies: 31
Views: 11616

Re: Vibrateing & looseing steps

Are any of the other files, that ran fine, longer than the suspect file?
by robtown
Mon Mar 11, 2019 11:42 am
Forum: Centroid Acorn CNC Controller
Topic: question about motor drives
Replies: 16
Views: 5726

Re: question about motor drives

Happy to help, inadvertent or otherwise.
Folks here certainly helped me out a bunch.
by robtown
Sun Mar 10, 2019 6:35 pm
Forum: Centroid Acorn CNC Controller
Topic: question about motor drives
Replies: 16
Views: 5726

Re: question about motor drives

Mine is wired with the dB25.
It was easy peasy.
And I’m using a Antek 63v power supply.
by robtown
Sun Mar 10, 2019 2:45 pm
Forum: Centroid Acorn CNC Controller
Topic: question about motor drives
Replies: 16
Views: 5726

Re: question about motor drives

The last couple weekends I've spent a lot of time cutting. My motors (driven by 203's) barely get warm. I believe they are 7 amp motors.
by robtown
Thu Mar 07, 2019 2:20 pm
Forum: Centroid Acorn CNC Controller
Topic: Cnc12 setup for wood router
Replies: 3
Views: 1707

Re: Cnc12 setup for wood router

Unclear of what you are actually asking.
But for tool touch off, search the Acorn forum for "M6". I found a macro, I believe by Gary Campbell, that dropped in place and just worked for me with no modifications.
by robtown
Wed Mar 06, 2019 5:27 pm
Forum: Centroid Acorn CNC Controller
Topic: Help with Gecko 203v on Acorn, retrofitting old ShopBot.
Replies: 18
Views: 7047

Re: Help with Gecko 203v on Acorn, retrofitting old ShopBot.

Mine is 14-15 years old... It's always had limit switches, but as far as I know there's never been software travel limits in the SB control software. And I do recall some folks using their limit switches to home their machine on startup, but I never did. Bottom line is my old SB has done some really...
by robtown
Wed Mar 06, 2019 4:21 pm
Forum: Centroid Acorn CNC Controller
Topic: Help with Gecko 203v on Acorn, retrofitting old ShopBot.
Replies: 18
Views: 7047

Re: Help with Gecko 203v on Acorn, retrofitting old ShopBot.

Gecko 203's do just fine with the Shopbot. There's a number of us using them with the Acorn. I'm quite pleased with my conversion. It was a good step up when I upgraded my original ShopBot control board with thier 4G upgrade control board. And an even better step up from the 4G when I did my Acorn r...
by robtown
Tue Mar 05, 2019 1:23 pm
Forum: Centroid Acorn CNC Controller
Topic: Help with Gecko 203v on Acorn, retrofitting old ShopBot.
Replies: 18
Views: 7047

Re: Help with Gecko 203v on Acorn, retrofitting old ShopBot.

Just completed building a control box from scratch using 203's for my circa 2005 PRT standard. Had no issues at all... none that I wasn't directly responsible for anyway. I spent this past weekend cutting 16 sheets of 3/4 ply and around 20 sheets of 1 inch and two inch foam. When I say "spent t...