Well, we got tired of the limitations of the old control and decided to take the plunge and convert to the Centroid All In One control. There was quite bit of prep work getting new wiring for limit switches on hand, making a motor mount for one of the new servos and all the assorted other gathering in preparation. But, we were running parts last Tuesday, finished up a job that Karen was running and started cleaning and such on Wednesday and Thursday, unconnected the front control panel and the servo motors on Friday, and a friend of mine (who is the Centroid Installer for AZ) showed up with another friend and my son came also, and we completed the taking off of the Milltronics parts and replacement of the Centroid parts on Saturday, had the new Servo's mounted. Finished the new wiring for limit switches and replaced all the airlines on Sunday, while Marty was hooking up all the wiring for the new control.
By the afternoon we had the axis motors checked for proper direction, put the belts on and checked all the limit switches, set homing procedures, calibrated the axis to get the proper distance exactly as commanded, ran self tests and auto-tuned the servo motors. By the end of the day, we have a functioning machine again! Pretty incredible in my opinion. We still have to put the belt covers back over the motors, re-install the front way cover (I got new rubber for the Y axis front and back) and clean up from the work and we should be back to learning the new control and running parts.
I have already run some testing on converted Centroid controls on a few other machines, so not completely unfamiliar, so I don't expect any issues. I have a Google photo album of the machine from when I bought it to yesterday, and will add more pictures as we go along if anybody would like to look:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/Xzqgfdrsc5qYnDHz8
Oh, We will also have a whole Centurion V control system, servos and associated parts for sale, if anybody wants spare parts.... let me know.