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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 V4612 with 7766 HiCON and Huanyang Spindle Inverter

« on: April 24, 2021, 04:52:13 PM »

All I can suggest is that you check the output from the HiCON. Presumably you’re using one of the relay outputs on J12, so maybe put an led or a multimeter across the RLx and GND pins and see what happens.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 V4612 with 7766 HiCON and Huanyang Spindle Inverter

« on: April 24, 2021, 02:04:36 AM »

I’m not clear - are you using S********* to start the inverter and hence the spindle? It sounds as though you are from what you’ve written. The inverter should be on before you run any g-code.
Assuming your inverter is running, then something like M3 S12000 in the MDI will start the spindle. If that doesn’t work then:
Check your analog speed control connections are correct (though it sounds as though they may be ok).
Check that you have the FOR and DCM connections wired up correctly to the controller.
Check your parameters are correct. There is loads of info on parameter setting on the net and you have to check they apply to your model, but for starters check that PD01 and 02 are set to accept commands from an external source. Also check PD070 is set to 0 so it recognises the 0-10v analog input.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: spindle speed control

« on: April 23, 2021, 11:10:40 AM »

Yes. Unless you have another spare output on the controller that you can switch on/off using  Mach3, though you would still need a relay because the pump will probably draw at least 1 amp, maybe more.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: spindle speed control

« on: April 23, 2021, 11:02:03 AM »

A vfd would only be of use for a 3 phase mains voltage spindle. As yours is a 24dc spindle, the simplest way would be to connect it to a 24v dc power supply, and switch it using a relay from your controller. It should then run at max speed.
If you want more sophistication you could look for a variable voltage supply from, say, eBay so you could control the speed manually. You will not be able to use the 0-10v analog output from the controller, as it is not capable of supplying the current that the spindle would need.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: 12 V water pump connection

« on: April 23, 2021, 04:15:38 AM »

In this, and your other post on spindle speed, you don’t mention what sort of spindle you have, or whether you have a vfd to run it.
Looking at the controller you picture below, one way of connecting the water pump would be to connect a suitable relay to the spindle connections so it switches on whenever the spindle is powered up.
Re the 0-10 volts question you asked in the other thread, the 0-10v is meant to be fed to the analogue in (often labelled A0 and AI) connections of the vfd. You then set the parameters of the vfd to use this analogue signal to control spindle speed, rather than setting it manually. If you don’t have a vfd you would presumably have to set the speed in your g-code with an M3 S*********xx command.
Maybe let people know a bit more about your hardware so they can give some better answers than this one??

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Spindle speed not correct

« on: February 11, 2021, 04:04:16 AM »

A quote from one of the posts I linked to above said something like ‘I think the Huanyang developers were off having a coffee break when the Modbus protocols were handed out’.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Spindle speed not correct

« on: February 10, 2021, 05:49:36 AM »

Some links which might give some clues (not to me though, as I’m way out of my depth).
https://gist.github.com/Bouni/803492ed0aab3f944066
Also a thread on cnczone:
https://www.cnczone.com/forums/phase-converters/91847-software.html

I know that a few have managed to get Linux apps to talk to the HY vfds, and that someone wrote a plug-in for Mach3 to do the same. Maybe those endeavours would provide a clue on how to do the same with Mach4, as far as identifying register addresses go at any rate.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Spindle speed not correct

« on: February 09, 2021, 05:22:31 AM »

I’m looking forward to seeing how you get on - I still haven’t managed to get modbus talking to the vfd, and haven’t found any more info on the address registers.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Spindle speed not correct

« on: January 29, 2021, 01:09:08 PM »

Lets hope it comes prepared to have a finger wagged at it!

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Spindle speed not correct

« on: January 27, 2021, 01:38:06 PM »

This is the one as far as I can tell https://www.ebay.com/itm/3HP-10A-2-2KW-220V-Variable-Frequency-Drive-Inverter-VFD-VSD-Single-To-3-Phase/274338564112?hash=item3fdfda4810:g:cCkAAOSwel9emA~7 - it's a 220v input 2.2kW model. Serial number HY02D223B. If its anything like the UK there are a number of sellers.