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Appreciate the suggestions, I'll look into it. Do you have a suggestion for a plug and play motor? Looking at the Teknics clearpath integrated series, they start at $250 a motor so was hoping to avoid dropping another $1k on this project but will consider it.

Apprecaite all the input, all of you are extremely knowlegeable and I apprecaite it. I cleaned up a couple connetions on my x axis. It looked like my stepper driver 5V and Channel B wires might have had a short from the wire poking through when it got too hot during soldering. Doesn't explain why my ...

Thank you, apprecaite it and will get back after I look at the wiring tonight.

Since my motor is all the way to the left (almost as far as it can run before it will hit the side) I want to move it back to the right side so it has more room to run if this issue happens again at startup. However ...

A few years ago I ran my mill once or twice on test parts and it worked well. I only ran it a couple times a few years ago due to time contraints but recently rewired it and getting it going again but don't have enough experience running it to know what's normal or remember the software setting I ...

Perfect that makes sense, thank you!

Setting up a dual Y axis mill and reading through the documentation which says at the bottom of page 17:
" The Slave switch must be installed on the machine so that is trips FIRST."
https://www.centroidcnc.com/centroid_diy/downloads/acorn_documentation/paired_axes_acorn_user_guide.pdf

Same ...

Thanks for the reply and the link! I would love to pick up a high RPM spindle for wood and plastics. Really like idea of the spindle you linked has the same ER20 collet as my motor. Guessing I'd also need a VFD to get the 220V from a 120V outlet. Hard to know what's good and what will last with so ...

1) If I import a file that has spindle speed of 18k and a feed rate of 240 ipm but my spindle (which has RPM control through my Acorn CNC controller) can only do a max of 3k RPM, will acorn give me a warning to tell me there is a difference between the requested RPM and the actual RPM of the spindle ...

I'm new to the CNC process and trying to run my first part. When I load a program and home my axis and try to run it I get a message that says "907 Y Axis Travel Exceeded". I've moved my axis to make sure none of my limit switches are tripped, reset the zero of my axis, and rehomed but still have ...

I'm trying to run my first CNC program but confused what type(s) of code my post processor (V-Carve Pro) should output that is accepted by my Centroid CNC controller. In the manual there are chapters 11 and 12 has a summary summary list of M and G codes but I haven't found what types of code I ...