Before I worked at Avid CNC I ran them in several machines that I converted. The Acorn is rock solid reliable which is what attracted me to it. I was able to take some old machines I was running that had unreliable controls and make them into rock solid reliable machines that went from being flakey to absolute workhorses.
When I got here and we started going down the path of evaluating new controls Centroid quickly rose to the top because of the reliability and flexibility.
A controller that can do this:
Is not only very impressive, but also addresses a lot of things that we have wanted to do for a long time. If you haven’t read through this post, it explains why we made the switch: