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Galil / Mach, Galil, VFD not communicating

« on: August 15, 2016, 01:24:58 AM »

Hi all, new to the forum. I'm 99.9% finished with a servo-actuated router build, and I'm hung up on the VFD spindle.

Controller: DMC-2140
VFD: Hitachi SJ200-2
Plugin: re-downloaded the non-SmartTerm version last week.

The spindle runs correctly using OFW, so I know the wiring is good, but I can't get Mach to generate voltage at MOCMDW.

Ports & Pins:
Spindle is Enabled, with everything else set to null.
Enable output is set to pin 41, and it responds as expected with a SH command (I'm fine with forward-only for now).
Spindle setup tab, Motor Control: Use Spindle Motor Output is checked. I'm not sure whether PWM or Step/Dir is more appropriate (neither is true in this case), but I have to choose one, and I've tried both with no luck.

Galil plugin:
Axis setup: A is mapped to W(D), configured as a servo (X, Y, and Z are mapped 1:1 as servos, and working beautifully).
Spindle is 0v to 10v is checked, Encoder is not.

Spindle Pulleys:
I set a 1:1 pulley at 1000rpm to be safe. Spindle runs at 24000rpm @ 400Hz

Motor tuning: Spindle:
Steps per is set to 60 (again, to be safe), and I've moved it around with no effect.

Is there anything that I'm missing..?