Acorn CNC (Mill) Stepper issues

[RoySalisbury]

Is the C86 Acorn led green when you are using it or red?

The power LED is red.

Roy

[martyscncgarage]

Is the C86 Acorn led green when you are using it or red?

The power LED is red.

Roy

Just know that when C86 is on line and working properly that led is GREEN. There is a design flaw in that it expects all enables to come on and off at the same time. Acorn does not do that. Acorn enables the drive commanded. I tested this extensively.

While your motors may move, it is not monitoring drive faults properly. Go to CNC4PC's user forums and check

I did extensive testing with them. They will be monitoring an output from Acorn instead of enables.
It's my understanding that new hardware revision won't be ready for testing and distribution until first of the year.

I still think you would be well served to spend $12 on a DB25 male breakout board and move your drive inputs over to there.

Marty

[taylork057]

the stepper wires bundled up like that may need to be separated and shielded