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General Mach Discussion / Re: Need Help Controlling Spindle
« on: December 30, 2011, 11:04:36 AM »
YES!

Changing those Jumpers did the trick.

Now all that remains to be done is proper calibration of the spindle speed.

Thanks For all your Help Hood

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Need Help Controlling Spindle
« on: December 30, 2011, 10:05:53 AM »
You must be getting pretty sick of me now Hood... But here is the latest:

I have been playing around with Enable1 under the Output signals.

Setting the pin to 1 means when i press the spindle start button, the F value increases on the VFD (Spindle off ~70, Spindle On ~ 350)

Setting the pin to 17 gives the same Run sign illumination for the briefest of instants when Spindle start is pressed (only to start not to stop)

Setting the pin to 14 has no visible effect.

This was done with the Step and Dir Pins in Motor Outputs set to 0

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Need Help Controlling Spindle
« on: December 29, 2011, 03:02:26 PM »
Ok attached is the latest XML....

I have been experimenting with pin 14 and 17. Setting 14 as the Step pin (and pin 17 as the output) I get a click from the VFD when I press the  "Spindle CW F5" button to turn it on. (For the briefest of moments the run button is illuminated)

However if I set both the Step Pin and Output Pin to 17 the spindle spins up (to as fast as it can go) when an Estop has been done....

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Need Help Controlling Spindle
« on: December 29, 2011, 09:14:08 AM »
Ok that does seem to have helped somewhat, although the spindle never actually stops when Mach is running I am able to make it go fast by clicking the "Spindle CW F5" or slow down to its normal running speed

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Need Help Controlling Spindle
« on: December 29, 2011, 08:37:35 AM »
Ok. I fiddled around with the VFD's settings and now as soon as I start up Mach the spindle spins up. Before that with the computer just in windows the spindle is stationary. Changing settings within Mach doesn't seem to effect the spindle speed or anything else.

Attached is the latest XML file

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Need Help Controlling Spindle
« on: December 28, 2011, 09:11:44 AM »
Ok heres the XML i think....

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Need Help Controlling Spindle
« on: December 24, 2011, 05:08:24 PM »
Where do I find the XML?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Need Help Controlling Spindle
« on: December 24, 2011, 12:51:38 PM »
This is the manual:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/53958419/UIM2901%20Mach3%20BOB%20110718.pdf

It is somewhat sparse in information about setting up the spindle. I mean I see Pin1 should control the spindle PWM...

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Need Help Controlling Spindle
« on: December 24, 2011, 12:42:18 PM »
Sorry I can't seem to edit my first post (get stuck with the green loading bar at the top)

Vin (+10V) to +10V
Out (AVI: Analogue input) to FiV
0V (ACM: Analogue Ground) to GND

CP1 (FWD/Stop) to FWD
CP2 (Digital Ground) to GND

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Need Help Controlling Spindle
« on: December 24, 2011, 12:10:54 PM »
Those labels are down the right hand side of the BO board (its a poor picture but its from their manual)

Spindle control is set to pwm but i'm unsure what numbers to put in the ports and pins config menu

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