Hi everyone this is my first attempt at converting a router to Mach 3 and I've just hit a wall. Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.
History
It's being installed on a Camtech router formerly running on wincnc it has a 5.5hp perske spindle driven by a yaskawa gpd315/v7 inverter. The breakout board has been replaced with a C11G v7.1 from cnc4PC.
I had a problem with the software not recognizing the homing switches for the y and z axis and the on screen led indicators for the limit switches would flicker occasionally. After I read some posts about similar problems on this forum I grounded one end of all of the shielded wires to a single point. A friend of mine has a HASS mill and he was told by the HASS technician to install a ground rod on the other side of the wall behind the electrical box that the machine connects to and ground the box to it. So I did this as well.
The new problems are when I toggle the spindle on using either the F5 or the screen button the spindle turns about a half a revolution and kicks out the screen reset. I'm just using the on-board relay to start and stop the spindle, no speed control yet. The other on-board relay is connected to the flood coolant button and I use that to start a dust collector and it works fine.
The reset also randomly kicks out every minute or so when the machine is just sitting there with the steppers in hold mode.
Things I've tried;
Adjust the debounce interval to 6000 and the index debounce to 900. This has improved the reset problem but the spindle will still randomly cause a screen button reset after 10-15 minutes of run time.
I ran a 6 gauge ground wire directly from the wire shield common ground in the panel to the 10 ft copper coated ground rod outside, no plugs no connectors. The earth is a bit sandy and dry so I'm not sure how good the ground is. This is in addition to the 12 gauge ground in the machine power cord.
Other Tidbits;
The power supply to the machine is 240V 1 ph. I have a 120V plug on the machine to run the panel and computer, this plug is a GFI with a surge protector plugged into it.
The power wire for the spindle is shielded and the shield grounded on one end. I run a separate shielded wire for the spindle ground.
The first 5 ft of spindle power and ground wire run under the metal electronics cabinet, thought this might have been an issue but the spindle started and stopped o/k. For even more shielding I ran this wire through a 1/2” metal conduit. Now when I try to start the spindle it kicks out the GFI. If I run a separate extension cord from another outlet to power the panel and computer I can start the spindle without incident, except it still kicks off the Mach 3 reset after 10 or 15 minutes.
Until I grounded the shield on my incoming phone/DSL internet wire the spindle would kick off the internet any time I would run it. The phone/DSL internet wire doesn't come any closer than 30 ft to the spindle.