Acorn6 ENC1 cable connection to DMM DYN4 DB9 connection ZRI locations?

[PrestonE]

Hello Everyone,

We are trying to figure out the where the ZRI+ pin 9 and ZRI- pin 1 on DMM DYN4 DB9 cable
goes to when connecting to the ENC1 DB9 cable connection on the Acorn6 Board.

Acorn6 Board layout showing the DB9 Connectors:

https://www.centroidcnc.com/dealersuppo ... 164.r1.pdf

Also what is this ZRI line used for as the Acorn only has one ZRI Input available and we have
6 AC Servo drives to hook up.

Also on both the DB9 connections there are Z+ and Z-, what are these used for?

Best Regards,

Preston

[cnckeith]

you can use one input for all the zri's , cnc12 will look at that input when homing (if programmed to do so) , it moves one axis at a time for homing so it 'knows' which axis zri tripped even though they are all using the same input.

[ShawnM]

ZRI+ and ZRI- do not go to the DB9 encoder connections on the Acorn. If you look closely at the diagram you posted it shows the connections. ZRI- goes to the Acorn COM and ZRI+ goes to any of the available input and then you have to program that input in the Wizard to ZRIHomingAll for it to work properly. As Keith stated you can wire all three axis ZRI outputs to a single input and the ZRI homing macro will know what to do.

[cnckeith]

would be great for you to have a build thread with all info in one thread rather than scattered info.
viewtopic.php?t=11789

here is how.
viewtopic.php?f=60&t=6928

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