Quote Originally Posted by petesos View Post
ok (this is petes wife as he has gone to cool down and pour a big drink) i have just been going through the settings on the box and this is what i have found fingers crossed you can find something wrong here ,,,,,,, F000 is 0 ,, F001 is 1 ,,, F002 was 1 but i then changed to 3 and for the first time the spindle thing was making a noise but then the estop writing came up on the display and it stopped,,,,, THEN coz i didn't know better i press F003 is 50.0hz and F004 is 51.4hz ,,, i stop after that ,,,
To be honest, the numbers for F000 through F004 all look good. You can recover the F002 to 1 at any time to change the speed control back from the pot to what should be software control through Mach3.

The problem that I'm thinking, as posted above - up until now the spindle hasn't been driven, by changing F002 to 3 you've removed the software control and put the rotary control into play - and that is as the VFD is configured in the factory - default/standard set-up. Obviously the machine builder configured it differently to be controlled by software - but either/or should be equally valid (they work very much the same way). But whilst the software/Mach3 control system is still a bit unknown to us, by changing to the F002=3, rotary control (pot) we've removed some unknowns, and now the spindle should be under complete manual control. With the VFD switch OFF, and the rotary knob fully anti-clockwise, the spindle should be off. Turn the VFD switch on - the spindle should be "on" but not turning. Rotating the knob clockwise slowly would be expected to result in the spindle spinning faster and faster. What I think OP is saying is that, either with the VFD switch ON, or at least ON and with the knob rotated away from the zero position, that the VFD displays a fault?

If the above is accurate, this moves the investigation away from any Mach3 set-up issue (at this time) to the VFD and spindle.