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Ok from the existing wiring on the drives you can see where they have been connected to the CS labs and you can also see the "extra" wire I have soldered onto the connector,
that hot wire you mentioned earlier goes to the large contactor (enable activated) which has a 240v wire to one of the contacts, so I am now in a position that I have no reverse (m4) but I have control of m3 but the spindle still runs slowly at power on I have got hold of the collet chuck in the spindle and it's not driven with any power,
have you got homing switches on your machine?
i have moved axes to their extremes tonight and marked it with a permanent marker to measure stroke lengths and see where is best to locate the switches, I found the CS labs mpg unit to be very notchy in movement I need to figure out how to smooth that out, but all in all much more positive about the machine now, thanks for your input guys.
chris w.