Centroid Community CNC Support Forum

start off by thanking everyone here for their help thus far and entertaining my sometimes trivial questions im trying to do this right the first time and learning as i go. that being said im still on the topic of limit switches ive decided in proximity switches but how many do i "need" its...

ShawnM wrote: ↑Tue Jun 13, 2023 10:46 am Have a look at this page, at the top is a link to affordable NPN NC proximity switches on Amazon. These work great.

https://www.centroidcnc.com/centroid_di ... _gear.html

thank you, also i am fairly new to this what does the centroid require a npn no/nc, pnp no/nc ?

suntravel wrote: ↑Tue Jun 13, 2023 11:54 am Works great to manual control the mill, but for more than 2 moves, I am faster with Intercon...

Uwe

can you explain intercon a little i looked it up but im not quite sure what it is

fusion wrote: ↑Tue Jun 13, 2023 10:56 am I do that ALL the time. Probably more than CNC control. It works great.

do you use the centroid pendent or are you using a different one?

hey guys im up to the point of figuring out what limit switches to get another thread has had me decide on proximity induction sensors can someone share a link or let me know of a good one at a decent price its a hobby mill benchtop so its not a big machine any help is apreciated

so the one major issue im having to deal with converting my manual mill to cnc is losing the ability to do manual machining operations, my design does still allow the use of the handwheels but i am removing my power feed in lieu of the cnc steppers. My question being with the Centriod wireless pende...

suntravel wrote: ↑Sun Jun 11, 2023 3:30 pm Scales with Acorn6



Uwe

ive watched all your videos that machine is amazing thats on a whole other level!

5V Differential (RS422) incremental quadrature. It's doable, but depending on the resolution of your scales, you may find the dither unacceptable. I've used Acu-Rite SENC 150 and SENC 50, Fagor MM, and MSA 170 scales in the past. You'll have the wire the DE9 connector as you will not find any scale...

I'm converting my manual Mill to CNC I'm trying to decide between the acorn 4 and the acorn 6th the main reason for the acorn 6th is the three ports it has for linear scales I already have decent linear scales fitted to my Mill so if I can use those in conjunction with the CNC control board I'll go ...

this is great im working on the same mill comverting it to cnc my question is in regards to your stepper motor mounts the factory cnc machines from wabeco used an offset stepper and pulley to drive the ballscrews i see you went direct how is that working? what size motors are you using i would much ...