Hi All,
I am looking for some info on how to set up a spindle gear shifter. If someone has a macro to do most of it, I could possibly edit it and make it work for me.
The logic would be:
Enter a spindle speed, and then it will look up to see which gear to use based on the spindle speed in the pulleys.
If it needs to change gears stop the spindle.
Pause the motion.
Turn on out-put 1 for gear 1 and turn off out-puts 2 and 3.
The mill only has three gears:
Output 1 = gear 1 speed range 9-140 RPM
Output 2 = gear 2 speed range 180-450 RPM
Output 3 = gear 3 speed range 560-1400 RPM
I tried one shot at it and couldn’t get past the little error message that says “Too Fast for Pulley..Using Max.” What I did would work if I could find a way to make it so when I entered a spindle speed faster or slower than the current pulley speed, it would change pulleys.
The reason I am having to use the pulley is for the scaling of the 0-10v to my VFD.
Any help would be great.
Andrew