It's been a while since I installed my Acorn board on my Novakon torus pro. I had issues with Mach 3 so I was looking for something to replace it with that was more reliable. The acorn has been great. The weird issues I had before are gone. Any errors I have been able to trace back to the operator and that's me. It's great that I can now hit the green button and I know the mill will do what it's told to do.
I added a photo of the install. If I add in a 4th axis I will have to relocate the power supply for the acorn but that's about it.
Acorn retrofit on Novakon torus pro.
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Upnorth
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Acorn retrofit on Novakon torus pro.
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slodat
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Re: Acorn retrofit on Novakon torus pro.
Very cool! I have a good friend I've been trying to talk into converting his Torus Pro to Acorn.
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martyscncgarage
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Re: Acorn retrofit on Novakon torus pro.
Awesome. Thanks for sharing your build!
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Mesa, AZ
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Upnorth
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Re: Acorn retrofit on Novakon torus pro.
I'm pretty happy with the retrofit. Looking at the photo I'm somewhat ashamed of how messy the wiring is. I put in some new wiring but I tried to use as much of the original wiring as I could. Some of it is routed a bit odd to avoid interference with the monitor. I also had to figure out what to do with the wiring for the power draw bar. That was mostly easy except for a couple of wires in the end it all worked out though. The power drawbar has it's own internal software.
I should point out that I have the stepper version of the Torus Pro not the servo version.