OK, it seems like I am close but not there yet!
Working with Jeff I sent him my G540 and he tested it and found that there were some settings in spindle motor tuning that were wrong with the combination of the G540 and Smoothstepper.
THe correct settings are:
set the steps/unit = 1000
set the velocity = 60
set the acceleration = 1000
With this my spindle does now run, but not correctly.
First I have lost the ability to run it in local, manual mode. Not sure why nothing has changed from my older setup, where it would ONLY run that way.
Mach now does turn on the spindle but it will only run very slowly, maybe 100 rpm or less.
I have spindle pulleys set up with min being zero and max 10,000(the max speed for the Dyna)
Here is one odd behavior I don't understand, and I have seen this from the get go:
I enter a spindle speed, say 1000, and click the LED, or hit F5 and the field where the speed is entered will count down from that speed to zero, rapidly, like in 1/10th of a second.
Is this how its supposed to perform?
Any other ideas would be appreciated.
I have also contacted Jeff in a private email about this as well.
THanks all,
Paul