Thanks Peter More great info. When I saw what you had I thought Wow an easier way to program the VFD. But no. It is a great program though, you can see what is happening. Cheers Rob
I'm afraid it's still button pressing to program the damn things Rob. I wonder if there is such a program to program the registers. That would be great. Cheers Peter
Thank God for Peter Passuello. I've had no end of trouble trying to get my RS5 adaptor working for over a year. It worked for about a month then mysteriously stopped. I'have rewired the entire CNC and I've replaced the RS-5 adaptor. No luck. I've been controlling my spindle manually through the VFD. Thanks again Pete! Keep up the great vids.
Thanks Peter, this program would have been even more handy if you could access and change parameters without having to do all the button pressing on the VFD front panel.
Peter, would you happen to know why my RPM readings are flashing from 0 to the set RPM settings and never stabilize. If I use the parallel DB 25 port no problems. I thought I would upgrade to the UC 100 smooth stepper and that is where the problem starts. The RPM fluctuates 0-8000 rapidly and never sets at the desired RPM. I can control the rpm just fine but the read out is haywire in mach 3
The readings also fluctuate on mine and I suspect it is because Mach does not generate the PWM when you use a motion control card. It would be a matter if checking the screenset to see exactly what the DRO is displaying. So long as the spindle speed is correct then I wouldn't worry about it. Not something I have looked into. Cheers Peter
Great job peter I have a couple of questions about your machine, use nema 23 and 34? and the type of pinion used for the drag, I can not find it to buy (rather I do not know how to look for it)
Any chance you could do a video on the setup process of the HuanYang VFD with your router? It seems a fairly common combination but the translation of the manual leaves a lot to be desired.
I did. The video before the RS485 was on setting up PWM for my VFD. My Gecko G540 does the PWM to analogue conversion so maybe I need to Investigate this for people who don't have a G540. I will see what I can come up with. Email me with your setup so I can get an understanding of your setup. ruclips.net/video/Xd3K47Iuwv8/видео.html Cheers Peter
You might be in luck. It looks like I ordered a PWM to voltage board for a VFD last month so will be able to do a video on it for those who don't have a Gecko G540. Just have to wait for it to arrive. Cheers Peter
Peter, as usual, great information. Along this line have you sen, used or tried MachProfile for kd-dietz.com/pages/eng/machprofile/description/m_profile_description.html ? Great utility to view/print the contents of Mach3's profile file
Thanks for the link Stephen, I wasn't aware of this site and usually check out a profile by reading the xml file or better still by loading the xml file into Mach3 and checking the config from there. I will have to have a look at the various tools they have when I get some time. Cheers Peter
4 years later still helping 😅
Thanks Peter More great info. When I saw what you had I thought Wow an easier way to program the VFD. But no. It is a great program though, you can see what is happening. Cheers Rob
I'm afraid it's still button pressing to program the damn things Rob.
I wonder if there is such a program to program the registers. That would be great.
Cheers
Peter
Thank God for Peter Passuello. I've had no end of trouble trying to get my RS5 adaptor working for over a year. It worked for about a month then mysteriously stopped. I'have rewired the entire CNC and I've replaced the RS-5 adaptor. No luck. I've been controlling my spindle manually through the VFD.
Thanks again Pete! Keep up the great vids.
If you can't get it to work on RS485 consider PWM and a relay. It works just as well and is universal to all VFD's.
Cheers
Peter
Thanks Peter, this program would have been even more handy if you could access and change parameters without having to do all the button pressing on the VFD front panel.
They are a pain to setup but hopefully you only need to do it once.
Cheers
Peter
Fault finding is an overlooked skill that is so necessary when something goes wrong.
In this throw away society, fault finding is a dying art. We need to stop doing that and start fixing things.
I like your RUclips name.
cheers
Peter
@@cncnutzI totally agree, thanks Peter.
Peter, would you happen to know why my RPM readings are flashing from 0 to the set RPM settings and never stabilize. If I use the parallel DB 25 port no problems. I thought I would upgrade to the UC 100 smooth stepper and that is where the problem starts. The RPM fluctuates 0-8000 rapidly and never sets at the desired RPM. I can control the rpm just fine but the read out is haywire in mach 3
The readings also fluctuate on mine and I suspect it is because Mach does not generate the PWM when you use a motion control card. It would be a matter if checking the screenset to see exactly what the DRO is displaying. So long as the spindle speed is correct then I wouldn't worry about it. Not something I have looked into.
Cheers
Peter
Great job peter
I have a couple of questions about your machine, use nema 23 and 34? and the type of pinion used for the drag, I can not find it to buy (rather I do not know how to look for it)
NEMA 23
270 ozin motors
Don't know what you mean by pinion for the drag. Can you elaborate.
Cheers
Peter
@@cncnutz Wow, nema 23 all axes? great, thanks!
Any chance you could do a video on the setup process of the HuanYang VFD with your router? It seems a fairly common combination but the translation of the manual leaves a lot to be desired.
I did. The video before the RS485 was on setting up PWM for my VFD. My Gecko G540 does the PWM to analogue conversion so maybe I need to Investigate this for people who don't have a G540. I will see what I can come up with.
Email me with your setup so I can get an understanding of your setup.
ruclips.net/video/Xd3K47Iuwv8/видео.html
Cheers
Peter
You might be in luck. It looks like I ordered a PWM to voltage board for a VFD last month so will be able to do a video on it for those who don't have a Gecko G540. Just have to wait for it to arrive.
Cheers
Peter
Peter, as usual, great information. Along this line have you sen, used or tried MachProfile for kd-dietz.com/pages/eng/machprofile/description/m_profile_description.html ? Great utility to view/print the contents of Mach3's profile file
Thanks for the link Stephen,
I wasn't aware of this site and usually check out a profile by reading the xml file or better still by loading the xml file into Mach3 and checking the config from there. I will have to have a look at the various tools they have when I get some time.
Cheers
Peter
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