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Thanks for the replies. Seems to validate my approach. I do have soft limits in place and they have tested good. Once I am a bit more familiar with how CNC12 works, I may delve into playing with the park and tool change postions. For now, tool changes and parking at home postion is not a problem ...

Thank you for the suggestions, I will dig into this on the weekend and try your suggestions.

Thanks,
Mike

I have CL86 drives. Wiring should be about the same as yours. as mentioned you have two encoder wires switched. Looks like you dont have enables wired. They will work without alarm wired. Attachin an image of the wiring into my drive. The yellows are +24VDC. the Acorn grounds to activate the item of ...

working on commissioning my mill. Mahcine homes fine on startup. No issues moving with VCP or pendant. Issue is I have had occations to want to rehome, mostly as a sanity check. Pushing 'RESET HOME' on VCP does nothing. Is this intentionally non-functional after initial homing? If so, that is fine ...

I have an issue and would like some feedback on proposed fix.

I have retrofitted Acorn control system to an early 80's vintage Hurco KMB1 mill. Have everything working so far. I've even made a part shown in one of Intercon videos. My problem is with the home/limit switches. I am using the original ...