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Nice work. You might want to rearrange your cable routing, to keep the servo motor power cables better separated from your input and signal cables and wiring. The servo motor power cabling can be a significant source of noise. Buy two finger guards (FG4) for the transformer. Everything else in your ...

There is no need to assign VFDEnable_O to an output. You would not do so if you choose to use SpinFWD and/or SpinREV instead. SpindleEnableOut_M is a memory bit (MEM168), which is always in place. I would open up PLC Detective (Ctrl-E from the CNC12 main screen), scroll down to around line #3745, an...

Homing Y positive is the default, because that is preferable on most milling machines. You do not have to use the default. You can set your homing directions to whatever you want. The direction any given axis homes (and the order in which the axes home) is determined by the instructions in the cncm....

Yes, it is okay to do that. I am fairly certain that, with power released, the Allin1DC essentially disconnects the motor, so there is no energy to absorb. But, even if it were in a dynamic braking mode (and you would know that when you tried to turn the cranks) the drive should still be able to dis...

From your one_shot_turn.xml button file: <vcp_button> <skin_event_num>20</skin_event_num> </vcp_button> From your one_shot_lathe_drill.xml button file: <vcp_button> <skin_event_num>68</skin_event_num> </vcp_button> From your one_shot_lathe_facing.xml button file: <vcp_button> <skin_event_num>24</ski...

It works the way you expected it to work: the accel time and max rate settings establish the acceleration rate.

That acceleration rate applies to all moves, regardless of the final speed.

The "G Code Tutor" reference applies to some controls in some configurations, but it is not universal, and in this detail it does not apply to Centroid. When you get into the finer details of canned cycles, there is a lot of variation between control manufacturers, and even between differe...

I am going to ask where in the Centroid manual it says that it will still rigid tap with an F value by figuring out the pitch from the RPM/Feed. You could just try it and see. Verify that your spindle encoder is working correctly, and that you have set Parameters 34 and 35 correctly. Set bit 0 of P...

More useful would be a picture of the preceding screen: the one with the live display of values such as Error, PID Out, Abs Pos etc.; and with the status window and message box visible. After you get a "410 ... position error" stall, and you press and release emergency stop, and then you p...

How transferable are the PID settings? Only somewhat, and then only if you read them right. The values displayed by CNC7CONV include a scaling factor of 256, so what you had was Kp = 1, Ki = 0.004, Kd = 20. With the Allin1DC you might start with Kp = 1, Ki = 0.004, Kd = 3 If you get an unacceptable...