C86ACCP Board Slaved Axis & Acorn Pairing

[bleiler60]

I am using the CNC4PC/C86ACCP board to connect Clearpath motors with the Acorn board for a gantry cnc machine. I have the jumper set to slave with the Y-axis on the C86ACCP. Do the motors have to be paired in the acorn wizard and if so how. The only option is to pair Axis 4 with one of the other two axis's.

The way the CNC4PC board is setup, from left to right in their manual, A,Z,Y, Slave Y or X and X. I have the jumpers set to on for X,Y,Z and Slave for the Y, A is off. Also in Acorns pairing and homing manual, it says to put a jumper between the enable signal for the paired motors. Does this still have to be done or does the C86ACCP board take care of it ?

Thanks
Bill

[bleiler60]

After going over the Acorn Paring and squaring manual, it looks like using the C86ACCP to pair the axis, is referred to hardware pairing in the manual, I think Using this method, auto squaring is not possible.

So I'll just skip using the slave feature on the C86ACCP and use the A axis connection and jump the enable signal

[martyscncgarage]

After going over the Acorn Paring and squaring manual, it looks like using the C86ACCP to pair the axis, is referred to hardware pairing in the manual, I think Using this method, auto squaring is not possible.

So I'll just skip using the slave feature on the C86ACCP and use the A axis connection and jump the enable signal

That is correct. Using C86ACCP for pairing simply ties two axis together.
Autosquaring must use software pairing and you have the Pro license installed