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Well jalessi helped me a lot with this, he pm'ed me his phone number and I gave him a call on Friday the 16th, after a few hours of trying different things it was determined that the software driver...

Thanks for the offer Jeff, I replied to your pm.



And I did make some progress, but I still think this card has issues and I'm not going to deal with it anymore, but here's what happen this...

Thanks for explaining that Jeff, it makes a little more sense now. : )



Well I didn't get to mess with it until last night and even with the Gecko drivers it's doing the same thing. So I'm...

I went back and read my posts, sorry I did leave out info.
And yes I kind of understand the "steps per", when I first set this up with the G540 I did the math and was fairly close, then I used that...

Well I made up my mind that these drivers I got are too small power wise, so I think I did screw up, but I want to reply to the last two posts first.

Oh do you mean the resisters that the manual...

Alan, the manual shows the ENA thing is used to enable/disable the driver, and not having anything hooked up to these terminals it is enabled.
And I have no idea how to check that other stuff.

As...

Yep checked the wire several times, look right.
As for the "steps setting", the drivers are set at "default/software". I didn't know this could be changed in Mach?





I understand what you...

I put together a cnc mill a few years ago and messed with it as I learned about this stuff, and this past year I decided to do some upgrades to the electronics.

The main things I upgraded was a...

Thanks Brooks

I did install the CT Soft, but I couldn't get it to communicate with the drive, I'll see if there's a manual on the disc (yes I did the guy thing and didn't look for / at the manual...

OK I completely misunderstanding these, I was thinking they were basically higher end BOBs. But they work with BOB(s) for better performance and more options.

So with that said I guess I'm going...

Was that on here? If not got a link to where it was? Would like to look into this one some more, but I'm still 50/50 about it.



I'm not sure if I'm understanding this right or not, but with...

Thanks for the info and fast reply Gerry.
And thank you for adding the info about the Ethernet boards. So they can just be plugged right into the PC port?


I went to Automation Technology's...

I'm posting this here because it doesn't deal with any certain brand, it's just general questions.

1- What's the differences of a Break Out Board and a Motion Control Board? To me they just seem...

Well hopefully someone can answer this.

Last night I had some free time to mess with mill a little and did a few cuts on some wood to check it's moving the distances it should, you know just...

I mainly used the sand/resin to make a slope and hopefully seal the base of the mill to the table so nothing get's under the base, the section of the wood tray that the mill sits on is flat & level....

Well I got it so I can turn the spindle on & off from the Mach screen, it comes on at full speed and stays there, no speed control at all.
So for now I'm done wasting my time on this, I got other...

Bob I'm not an expert at this since I have a post on getting my VFD working.

But if you mean to disconnect/connect the power, like when you done using it but don't want to pull the plug out of the...

Hello Brooks
Thanks for the info, but most of it went right over my head :D
I think I would like to look into Modbus more in the very near future, but I need to look into it more first, since I'm...

Well I didn't get to finish doing the AC lines on Monday like I thought I would, but did get them finished Tuesday, using the buttons on the VFD I could control the motor. So that was one step in the...

Yeah I hope I got it figured out :D


No I didn't get the VFD hooked up to the motor yet, I was planning to do that today (Sunday), but life got in the way. I should have enough time Monday to...

Thanks Eldon

You know I was looking at that pic and the pins for the G540 in the manual right after I posted it, and after about 10 minutes I came to the same thing you just posted. You know the...

That's what I'm worried about :D




zer0fighter if you still have the manual just see what they are calling those terminals you hooked up to would be good enough, maybe the two companies use...

And to add more to my confusion, I just noticed today (Saturday) that this VFD can also be controlled by a RJ45 connection and use Modbus RTU, so I looked into this too a little and it just seems to...

As mentioned I'm not an electronics person, and I don't want to fry anything, to me having to pay another $250-500 for electronic(s) because of a wire being hooked up wrong is just stupid.


I...

Thanks for posting that, but it didn't really help.
To me it just let me know that I'm on the right track about #8=VFD OUT goes to T1=0V and #9=+10VDC goes to T3=10V. I'm still have no idea about...

I did search the web, this section and the rest of the forum, but I can't find an answer to this. And I'm not an electronics guy, so please keep it simple.

I got an Emerson Control Techniques...

I'm trying to get this project done but other things keep getting in the way :)

No it's not going to have any concrete, just the wood. I guess I should give more details, I will start a thread on...

No need to apologize, I'm doing other things right now and will start this shortly.
OK on the fiberglass resin, I was hoping it wasn't anything fancy. And the rest of the info you gave is great.
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First off I want to thank you for putting this thread together, I enjoyed reading through it and seeing your build come to life, you did a really good job and got very creative. It also answered a...