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You should only use the Acorn power supply to power Acorn and maybe drive logic. You need a motor power supply to drive the Clearpath motors. I have not wired up the system yet, as I am still waiting for the ClearPath system. I will use their (Teknic's) power supply, and will use the Centroid PS to...

Acorn Power supply Is the Acorn power supply delivering enough amps to drive the Acorn board and the ClearPath POWER4-HUB; so obviously this would not be the primary power to the motors, just provide location awareness. If the Acorn PS is not sufficient I can add a DIN rail-mounted MeanWell 24v PS, ...

School me on enclosures please. I plan to put the electronics (Acorn, relay board, Acorn Power supply, Teknic IPC5 power supply, a DIN rail mounted 24V Mean Well power supply, and Teknic DC power distribution hub) into a metal enclosure, attached to the mill. Ideally the enclosure will be dust prote...

Just to clarify, I have bought a USB-to-Ethernet adapter , but the wifi then behaves erratically and slowly, probably because of some interference. Hence, I prefer to go through the 'real' ethernet adpater. The second question I have is: Can the Acorn be driven through an ethernet switch , or does i...

I am running an Intel NUC 8i7BEK (Intel Quad-Core i7-8559U, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD16GB DDR4 and Windows 10 Pro). It has only one Ethernet adapter, and I wold like to run both Mach 4 and drive the ESS and the Acorn (not at the same time). Problem is they both require static IP addresses. So I would like...

I have just placed an order on a PM-728VT with the CNC conversion kit and tooling. They are all on back order, so while I am waiting for delivery, I started planning the rest of the conversion. Bought an Acorn, and wanted to introduce myself and document the conversion in this thread. By way of back...