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It was Parameter 411 set incorrectly

I will get a report to upload, but this is on an Allin1DC board with the latest version of CNC12 running. Initially I thought it might be related to having to reverse the motor direction on X and Z as I had not got the Y motor back in. Now I have it is the same on the Y with the motor in the normal ...

Hi, Finally made some progress on my upgrade. I got all the axis motors up and working and configured for the right directions. However using the jog buttons on the MPG-6 sends the axis in the opposite direction to the ones on the VCP. i.e. correct on VCP but inverted on MPG. I can't find any inform...

Hi, working through the bench test using the latest release of the manual and I have found an anomaly between the text and the illustration. On the Drive Bus allocation section the text says to set parameters 300, 301 and 303 i.e. skipping parameter 302, however the figure 4.1.7 shows that 300,301 a...

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HI, One of the encoders (Z axis) on the machine I am retrofitting did not work, I bought the machine as a non working one. I have fitted a new Tamagawa OIH-48, which is what the other two have been upgraded to. I tested the system today and the encoder seems to count backwards. i.e turned anti-clock...

You also need to be really careful on your DTI set up to avoid Cosine error, what you have is far from ideal having the DTI tip on the spindle, any angular misalignment of the gauge from the true x Axis magnifies the error using a radius target. Best practice would say mount the DTI to the spindle a...

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I have ordered some from Mouser in the US as the UK supplier had minimum order of 6000 pins and no stock of the shell!

Hi, I found that one of my encoders is dead during the bench test. I have a replacement but can anyone help with details of the connector used inside the motor cap? These are the SEM motors supplied by Centroid in the 90's. I need either the connector and pins or just some pins as I can reuse the ho...

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The disk controller on the CPU seems to have failed as it won't seem to mount the hard drive or the floppy correctly. I have managed to cross mount the drive and copy it so should be able to find the files.