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by slodat
Sat Dec 17, 2022 11:50 pm
Forum: Centroid Acorn CNC Controller
Topic: Wireless MPG wheel stopped working
Replies: 4
Views: 536

Re: Wireless MPG wheel stopped working

I swapped the MPG with the one from my lathe. Problem follows the MPG. Lathe MPG works as expected on the mill.

The rotary encoder stopped working. Is there a repair or replacement program along the lines of the Acorn deal?
by slodat
Sat Dec 17, 2022 11:01 pm
Forum: Centroid Acorn CNC Controller
Topic: Wireless MPG wheel stopped working
Replies: 4
Views: 536

Wireless MPG wheel stopped working

I'm in the middle of a production run on my mill and the wireless MPG wheel stopped working. I've powered down, rebooted, restarted, new batteries, and all the other obvious stuff I can think of. It hasn't been dropped or anything. The wheel just stopped working on any of the modes. All the buttons ...
by slodat
Sat Dec 17, 2022 1:30 pm
Forum: Centroid Acorn CNC Controller
Topic: Bridgeport series 1 centroid CNC4 to acorn conversion
Replies: 26
Views: 6392

Re: Bridgeport series 1 centroid CNC4 to acorn conversion

Leadshine makes a really nice NEMA 42 Easy Servo motor and drive that's hard to beat. It's a closed loop stepper. Bolts right up aside from maybe needing a different size taper lock. Save yourself a lot of agg by not putting N34s on it. It's not a place to scrimp. Otherwise you wind up buying motor...
by slodat
Sun Dec 04, 2022 12:04 pm
Forum: Centroid Acorn CNC Controller
Topic: Struggling with lathe tool auto touch off with tt not at centerline
Replies: 44
Views: 4427

Re: Struggling with lathe tool auto touch off

Tom mentions the tool probe being in the tool table. I know how that works on my mill. This is a lathe conversation and I don’t see anything in the manual about a lathe tool touchoff being in the tool table or assigned a tool number..
by slodat
Sun Dec 04, 2022 11:26 am
Forum: Centroid Acorn CNC Controller
Topic: Struggling with lathe tool auto touch off with tt not at centerline
Replies: 44
Views: 4427

Re: Struggling with lathe tool auto touch off

Where/how do you set the probe as a tool? This is not covered in the lathe user manual that I see..
by slodat
Fri Dec 02, 2022 7:23 pm
Forum: Centroid Acorn CNC Controller
Topic: The AcornSix CNC controller kit has been released!
Replies: 76
Views: 109700

Re: The AcornSix CNC controller kit has been released!

Black Forest wrote: Fri Dec 02, 2022 4:17 pm What Keith wrote says you will have to pay for version upgrades in the future and if you don't pay you don't get support on this forum from Centroid. Something about that doesn't taste right to me.
Where did Keith say that? I’m not seeing it.
by slodat
Fri Dec 02, 2022 3:28 pm
Forum: Centroid Acorn CNC Controller
Topic: Struggling with lathe tool auto touch off with tt not at centerline
Replies: 44
Views: 4427

Re: Struggling with lathe tool auto touch off

Following along. I bought the TT-4 for lathe and could not figure out the auto tool measure routines. I’m measuring manually and it’s working perfectly.
by slodat
Fri Dec 02, 2022 2:15 pm
Forum: Centroid Acorn CNC Controller
Topic: The AcornSix CNC controller kit has been released!
Replies: 76
Views: 109700

Re: The AcornSix CNC controller kit has been released!

In the spirit of this conversation, I'm not running the latest CNC12 on one of my machines because it works great and I haven't had the time/need to upgrade.. On another, I have the latest because it solved an issue I was having..
by slodat
Fri Dec 02, 2022 2:12 pm
Forum: Centroid Acorn CNC Controller
Topic: How to setup a Tool release or Tool UnClamp button in VCP?
Replies: 11
Views: 1098

Re: How to setup a Tool release or Tool UnClamp button in VCP?

I have a physical switch on two different machines. Works great.
by slodat
Wed Nov 23, 2022 7:11 pm
Forum: Centroid Acorn CNC Controller
Topic: Acorn Lathe Intercon help needed
Replies: 11
Views: 1143

Re: Acorn Lathe Intercon help needed

Uwe - thank you for working with me on this. Unfortunately the intercon file you posted doesn't work for my situation. This is a photo of my tooling block's current configuration: 9960D27A-7880-4146-A955-390B522FC91C.jpeg The long boring bar on the far side of the tooling block is T0101. The pre/pos...