Spindle to uniport

[JAZZCNC]

Hey Jazz, your "tutorial" worked perfectly!! Thanks a lot!!

However I have a couple questions.

The spindle is in the bed before it starts to spin. In other words it's the machine is doing the cycle and then the spindle comes to life - is the some sort of delay I could toggle with?

Emergency stop - when I hit the E/Stop the machine stops and there is also a delay on the spindle shutting Down, but perfect when I hit stop in Mach3. Any ideas?

Sounds like It will be the relay delay spinup/down settings inside Mach. Go to Ports & pins spindle setup and under the general parameters set the CW delay spinup = 0 or a low number like 1 same for CW spin down.

If that doesn't work then it's in the VFD settings but I'd ahve to go have a look at the manuel to find it.

[JAZZCNC]

Emergency stop - when I hit the E/Stop the machine stops and there is also a delay on the spindle shutting Down, but perfect when I hit stop in Mach3. Any ideas?

This could be that you haven't got the charge pump setup on BOB or should say override, so when Mach E-stops and drops the charge pump signal it doesn't see it and keeps going for a while.? . . . Not sure on this thou.!!

Edit: On reflection scrap that idea it wouldn't do that.!!

[D-man]

Awesome guys thanks!

[JAZZCNC]

Awesome guys thanks!

Was it the CW delay.?

[D-man]

I ain't tried it yet just saying thanks in advance...... But now you got me thinking of it I need to go down and try it but wife ain't gona be happy #singleman = more money to spend on machine! haha

[JAZZCNC]

wife ain't gona be happy #singleman = more money to spend on machine! haha

It's no co-incedence I have an EX wife and girl friend who DOESN'T live with me. .


Let us know if it works.?

[D-man]

Lol. Nah that CW spin up did big do te trick. Just looking in the VFD now.....

[D-man]

Can't seem to find it in the manual either

[JAZZCNC]

Ok brain fart.!! . . just realised you actually do want a delay in the General parameters.? What it does is delay the movement commands giving the spindle time to spin up.!

So set it to 4 or 5 seconds and it should do the trick.?


Edit: Also are you sure the codes OK.? if there's Z movement commands before M3 then it won't start until Z command finish's so it will be hitting work.?

[D-man]

Yeah the z moves befor the spindle which I correct, but by the time it's got to its location the z is down and still has not spun up yet maybe half a second off...