Centroid Community CNC Support Forum

your system would be a good candidate for an upgrade. many of the good cnc components can be reused. centroid has several nice upgrade paths depending on the system configuration and supports most of its older components in combination with the new software and hardware. send photos of the electrica...

that message is saying that the cnc software can not find the CNC control card that is plugged into the mother board.
so carefully removing and reseating the CNC10 card from the PCI slot in the motherboard would be the first thing i'd try. with the power off of course.

oh.. that spindle is just a 3.5 hp Milwaukee industrial router motor..a stop gap until i can afford a better spindle.. works for now.. cuts aluminum no problem.

I thought some of you might like to see some photos of my home built CNC router. I built this system around a Centroid Allin1DC CNC control board. It is a 3 axis X,Y,Z machine with a moving Gantry that has two servo motors and two ballscrews on the Gantry axis (Y axis) so it is driven on both sides ...

yes..when the CNC PC motherboard shuts down or reboots the control goes into e stop condition. best to buy the ajax recommended mother board, cpu, ram and SSD gigabyte motherboard, with Samsung or Intel SSD, cpu with single core benchmark of at least a 1000 http://www.ajaxcnc.com/cnc-pc-minimum-hard...

make sure the signal wires to the sensor are shielded with a drain to earth ground.

try with the saddle flush with the bed. if you look in the software travel limits section of the cnc software..that would be a big hint as to where the home position is set to. if the Y axis travel limit is set to a negative number..then i would suspect that the home position would be the saddle flu...

machine home is not part zero, the DRO is telling you how far away from part zero the machine is sitting at. also called a "Work Coordinate"

hello. i'm wondering how you are using the tool library... are touching off each tool every time for each new program? (a common newbie misunderstanding) or are you following the tool library method taught in the training videos? since if you follow that method..it minimizes tool touch off's..etc.. ...

check this new webpage out..SEM DC Servo Motor Encoder Retrofit Upgrade, preparing the servo for the new CNC control. Step by step pictorial guide to installing a new Rotary Encoder and direct wire power and encoder cable on a 20 year old DC servo motor for use with a new Centroid CNC control. http:...