Teco, so yes they are chinese. I've had great luck with them though. They are in all my machines.
Not saying they are bad drives in fact I have used Samsung Fara drives and they are excellent. Just saying it seems to be the preferred method of the Asians for their inputs where as in the West they tend to have sinking inputs.
So why does M5 disable my output 1, (spindle drive enable). very strange.
Ah now that is a nice wee quirk.
You have M3 spindle relay set to OutPut 1. Now I hear you say, yes but I have the spindle relays disabled. That is the quirk, for some reason even though you have it disabled it will still switch it off with M5 if it is on. Easy way to solve the problem, enable the relays, change the output to one that is not used then disable them again
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