Thanks very much for that David ill start researching your recomadations now . Regards Tarn

I would have to say that you need to have a budget planned and what you want the retrofit to do. You could be well under $1,000. depending on which components you choose. You would have a MUCH more

Hi out there im new to the group and its my first time trying to rebuild a cnc. any way I have a emco F1 that I want to upgrade , looking for any segestions for stepper motors and controllers or any

Hi John, A counter and a D/A converter could be a solution. (Henk's solution?) Because the whole motor electronic has mains potential one must use an optocoupler or pulse transformer to send the M26

Hi Dave, My machine is a mk4 so the spindle speeds for threading are :- 0,5-1,0mm pitch = 500rpm 1,0-1,5mm = 320rpm all +5%. I have used speeds up to these limits so it means I can use one belt range

The threading on those machines requires you to run at 300ish rpm. Has to do with the ancient electronics. My pcturn50 is limited to like 26tpi. threads max. The 55 series has a 80 tpi. max. I had a

Hello, Has anyone got any ideas how to control /change the spindle speed on an original c5 cnc within the program using m26 pulse output. I know Henk did this but no precise information is available

I emailed you directly There are two software packages for Acorn. Lathe and Mill. In lathe you can label any axis "C" and make it a rotary axis and operate it as such. You are referring to two

You clearly don't understand. Mill 4th axis isn't Lathe C axis. C axis isn't an option in Acorn. Wow, you have some pull at Centroid. Tell them there is no C axias video and they post one for

Centroid fully supports 4th axis simultaneous movement. In All in One and Oak. https://www.centroidcnc.com/cnc_c_axis_lathe.html Centroid Acorn has 4 axis and you can make anyone of them a rotary

You can use the same licenses, but you can now use the version that supports winxp. License is a key number and name, no matter what system, no matter what machine Op za 15 aug. 2020 16:07 schreef Joe

Hi my 5PC is heavily modded already, and running under LinuxCNC. I have purchased original 6 position turret and it should be here any day now. Also, I purchased new closed loop nema 23 steppers and

Allin1DC and Oak by Centroid claim to support lathe C axis. Centroid's Lathe control manuals make no mention of C axis except for M codes to enable and disable C axis. It could have been a great

I believe there is no work around widely available to run the emco machine without its component software. Even if the ACC installed it still communicates to pc and software and requires emco software

Centroid Acorn does 4 axis and an axis can be assigned a C axis. Steo and direction motion controller AND software from Centroid. They specialize in CNC machine motion

You absolutely need to run Emco Winnc to communicate to the ACC. Contact Emco Service with your serial number to see if they can help you get what you need. ACC runs blind, it only interprets the

The OS installed on the ACC mini computer is definitely a version of Linux. Joe Yanasak

Possible that you could use another software package. You may need to change out the mini computer in the ACC to another one and run Mach or Linux. I believe the factory ACC is Linux based but cannot

So with the ACC retrofit installed, will I need proprietary software and license? I don’t have these. Is there any work-around? Kasanay

Nothing will change regarding speeds. You can just ditch the Windows 98 pc and work with something newer Op vr 14 aug. 2020 13:17 schreef User0n3 <chico_181@...>: