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General Mach Discussion / Re: can't get spindle to work

« on: October 14, 2015, 08:49:16 AM »

one more thing my elctronics guy just told me is that the PWM signal will go out on both lines and the switch to the board tells the machine to ignore the PWM signal coming in on pin 16 so you can adjust the RPM at the machine.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: can't get spindle to work

« on: October 14, 2015, 08:33:17 AM »

sorry I didn't get back yesterday but here is what we have. the spindle we bought was from pennybuying.com it was an A514A the number on the motor is HXKJ-GS52-300W. It is a 300W 12 V, 24V, 36V, 48V DC. spindle motor. the driver interface is a 12V 24V 48V 110V DC Motor Speed Driver Controller PWM MACH3 Spindle Governor. Our electronics engineer set it up to be able to run the motor either buy Mach using the PWM on ouput 14 or manually on outpu16 with a switch and speed control dial on the machine.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Need help finding hardware, I'll pay for your time

« on: October 13, 2015, 02:42:37 PM »

first thing is what kind of mill is it? second if you go to CNC4PC.com they have complete setups including drivers and motors that can be run on Mach software you might check that out. that's what we did now all we have to do is get the software talking properly to the machine. which for the most part I have figured out but having trouble with the spindle.

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General Mach Discussion / can't get spindle to work

« on: October 13, 2015, 02:17:47 PM »

My father and I have designed and built a new 4 axis CNC mill from the ground up in our machine shop. I'm a total newbie to Mach programs and have never tried to set anything like this up before. I have been able to get the X, Y, and Z axes to run on our mill but have had absolutely no luck with the spindle. For now all I want to do is to tell the spindle to turn on or off. I have gone through the manual and I have not been able to figure out what to do with it. can someone walk me through it?

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: New people welcome !! Come in here and introduce your self!

« on: October 13, 2015, 12:29:37 PM »

Hi my name is Kevin iv'e been a machist since back in the mid 80s when my father my brother and myself started a company manufacturing medical research equipment. we needed a new CNC machine to make small parts on and after loking around at what was out there decided to make our own